2008/2/28, J. Greenlees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Ok, how about something completely different then, go multimedia in a > lot of the presentation of information. > recordmydesktop, and the gtk interface for it will create ogg video > clips of what you are doing on your desktop, with audio track for > describing it verbally. A 20 Minute clip of installing PCLinuxOS is 25.7 > MB, 5 fps and 33% audio video quality settings in the recording, looks > and sounds just fine, you can even hear keystrokes used during the > recording.
And that costs $5 here to download. > Use these to fill the website with what each application is used for, > why it's configured the way it is to help draw more people to the > project as well. It seems most people want their "learning" to be > through video, with sites like http://showmedo.com/ being a prime example. Correct, that's a way to deliver information. It does work for a single author. However, here you are wandering into the unexplored territory of collaborated video editing. > This type of presentation would draw a lot more people who have never > looked at linux though, so the Theora Vorbis-ogg video format is > problematical if they only have windows. Miro media player works on all > platforms and handles it fine for them ;) Also this means that we would automatically lose blind people from the audience. (sorry if I sound too critical about every new proposal--just don't take it too seriously, the current situation is also not ideal) -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
