UPDATE: A potential solution to the problem described here may be found at http://electrokavalam.blogspot.in/2013/06/converting-samsung-s-note-snb-file-to.html
As a coding enthusiast, I feel very excited about this opportunity - there doesn't seem to be a direct solution to convert the .snb file to video.
The .snb file I am talking about is the native file format used by the very useful S-Note application of the Samsung Galaxy Note series of devices (and possibly other models).
What makes the S-Note app very appealing to me is its ability to record what you draw as you are drawing it. Compound this with the ability to record audio and the S-Note gives all the abilities of a tablet. Unfortunately, to the best of my knowledge, the recording can be played out only inside the S-Note app itself. (Please correct me if this is not true, I will only be happy) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ABY8hKJlWw this video seems to support this.
So, what I am thinking about is a script to convert the .snb to a video format like .avi that can be viewed by anyone.
Here are some pointers to get started on this goal.
This video www.youtube.com/watch?v=gchHRM5EMUQ is in fact from an S-Note recording. Its interesting how the author managed to upload the S-Note recording on Youtube. This is what he says,
But what I have in mind is a more direct way.
Firstly, the .snb file is like a .zip archive. The archived files can easily be retrieved by changing the extension to .zip and extracting it as usual !
Navigating to <extracted folder>\snote\media\ we uncover the drawingdata_1 file if you have actually done a recording in S-Note. This file is in XML format and gives the x,y coordinates to the pen with respect to time. So, there is the solution !! If some one can write a script to parse this XML file and generate a video based on the pen coordinates we can recreate the S-Note recording !
Such a script will even be useful for a tablet. But I wonder if there is already such a script around ?
As a coding enthusiast, I feel very excited about this opportunity - there doesn't seem to be a direct solution to convert the .snb file to video.
The .snb file I am talking about is the native file format used by the very useful S-Note application of the Samsung Galaxy Note series of devices (and possibly other models).
What makes the S-Note app very appealing to me is its ability to record what you draw as you are drawing it. Compound this with the ability to record audio and the S-Note gives all the abilities of a tablet. Unfortunately, to the best of my knowledge, the recording can be played out only inside the S-Note app itself. (Please correct me if this is not true, I will only be happy) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ABY8hKJlWw this video seems to support this.
So, what I am thinking about is a script to convert the .snb to a video format like .avi that can be viewed by anyone.
Here are some pointers to get started on this goal.
This video www.youtube.com/watch?v=gchHRM5EMUQ is in fact from an S-Note recording. Its interesting how the author managed to upload the S-Note recording on Youtube. This is what he says,
"I recorded the progression of my drawing using the new Note 2's screen's recorder
Note 2 record size:1080 at 30fps, file format is .snb
I used also Android SDK and Droid@Screen to connect my phone to a pc and record the screen again with Camtasia Studio for win7, 64bit"
But what I have in mind is a more direct way.
Firstly, the .snb file is like a .zip archive. The archived files can easily be retrieved by changing the extension to .zip and extracting it as usual !
Navigating to <extracted folder>\snote\media\ we uncover the drawingdata_1 file if you have actually done a recording in S-Note. This file is in XML format and gives the x,y coordinates to the pen with respect to time. So, there is the solution !! If some one can write a script to parse this XML file and generate a video based on the pen coordinates we can recreate the S-Note recording !
Such a script will even be useful for a tablet. But I wonder if there is already such a script around ?
I am a teacher and would love to use snote to make mini tutorials (and also be able to upload to dropbox, ect to be viewed by students. AVI, FLV, ...
ReplyDeletePlease have a look at http://www.electrokavalam.blogspot.in/2013/06/converting-samsung-s-note-snb-file-to.html for a potential solution.
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