Hi,

is there a way for a perl-script to detect that a video playing in chromium has finished playing?

What I want to do is to record some instructional videos that consist of a video and a synchronized chessboard.

The video is mp4 and I can easily download that, but it only contains talking heads and is useless without context on the chessboard, so my idea is to screen-record the whole thing which is no problem as such except that I need to figure out a way detect the end of the video so I can stop the recording unattended.

I was thinking that maybe WWW::Mechanize::Chrome could help or is there some image-processing module that would allow me to detect that a certain screen-region is no longer changing?

I am not looking for complete code examples, just for a pointer towards something that might work.

Many thanks!

In reply to detect end of video by morgon

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