Screen Recording

Pipe can record the screen on Chrome 72+, Firefox 66+, and Edge 79+ when using the Desktop Recording Client.

Intro #

When screen recording is enabled, the Desktop Recording Client will show a [Record Screen] button on the initial screen.

In the example below, screen recording, recording from the webcam and uploading existing files are alll enabled:

When clicking [Record Screen], depending on the browser you are using, you will be able to record the following:

• On Chrome you can record the entire screen, an application window, or a Chrome tab.
• On Firefox you can record the entire screen or an application window.
• On Edge you can record the entire screen, an application window, or an Edge tab.

How to Enable It #

From the UI #

You can easily enable screen recording in your Desktop Recording Client when generating a new embed code from the Embed section of your Account Dashboard:

1. Sign in to your Pipe Account Dashboard at https://dashboard.addpipe.com
2. Go to the Embed Recorder page
3. On the left side, in the Options panel, select Screen in the Recorder Type drop-down
4. Click the green Generate Embed Codes button
5. Copy and paste the newly generated code into your website

From Code #

Embed Code v2.0 via HTML

Add the pipe-srec="1" attribute to the piperecorder tag

Embed Code v2.0 via JavaScript

Add the srec property to your custom JavaScript object and give it a value of 1: srec:1 Your custom object will be passed as a parameter to PipeSDK.insert().

Embed Code v1.0

Add the srec property to the flashvars object and set it to 1 like so:

Known issues #

• On Chrome recording a tab will throw the error Device error: no audio or video data if no activity is registered in the captured tab (no mouse movements, no scrolling etc).
• On Firefox recording certain application windows, i.e. a Chrome window, will result in black-screen videos. The audio will be recorded as expected.