The srec parameter, which in the past held the Chrome extension id, has been reused as shown above. Their users will not be promted to install the Chrome extension anymore.

add the srec:1 property to the pipeParams object (embed code 2.0 JS)Ĭlients who are currently using the initial screen recording functionality through their own published Chrome extension will automatically migrate to the upgraded functionality.

add the pipe-srec='1' property to the piperecorder HTML tag (embed code 2.0 HTML).

add the srec:1 property to the flashvars object (embed code 1.0).Once enabled, the Record Screen shows up: When generating a new recorder embed code you can enable screen recording for that particular recorder from the options menu in the Embed section of your Pipe account dashboard: Turning on screen recording became a matter of option, not of careful custom development and extension publishing. So today we're updating the Pipe platform with the ability to record your screen on desktop devices in both Firefox and Chrome without having to worry about publishing a custom extension.

We've built such an extension for interested parties to use but the entry cost in development time was still high resulting in only a few of our trial users & clients experimenting with the feature.īut now, with the release of Chrome 72 and Firefox 66, standards compliant screen capture without extensions is natively supported by the 2 major browsers. It only worked in Chrome and it required a self published Chrome extension for the website where Pipe was embedded. We've first introduced the screen recording functionality in Pipe more than a year ago.

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