Re: [OMPI users] Open MPI instructional videos

2008-06-05 Thread Doug Reeder
Jeff, I believe that with quicktime-pro you can export the videos in several formats. Doug Reeder On Jun 3, 2008, at 1:48 PM, Jeff Squyres wrote: On May 30, 2008, at 9:55 AM, Andreas Schäfer wrote: I've never really dig into Open MPI's guts, not because I wasn't interested, but mainly bec

Re: [OMPI users] Open MPI instructional videos

2008-06-04 Thread Brock Palen
I really think just having them in a flash container works well, youtube style. I do this with both snapZpro (mac only) and jing (windows & mac), if you want to have a higher quality downloadable traditional video though, they prob wont work. Also these are screen+audio/voice capture tool

Re: [OMPI users] Open MPI instructional videos

2008-06-04 Thread Jeff Squyres
Thanks for the tip! I downloaded and tried the qt_tools but all conversions that I did to the MP4 format looked absolutely horrid -- the resulting videos had "jagged" images and all kinds of weird artifacts that would appear and disappear. The slides were quite readable, but they just look

Re: [OMPI users] Open MPI instructional videos

2008-06-04 Thread Scott Atchley
Jeff, If I remember correctly, Microsoft dropped support for .AVI 3-4 years ago so it can no longer be played by their media player. It is also not native to QT, so you will have to download a plugin (I have it somewhere if you want me to look for it). I do not know if there is a containe

Re: [OMPI users] Open MPI instructional videos

2008-06-04 Thread Jeff Squyres
On Jun 4, 2008, at 3:54 AM, Andreas Schäfer wrote: I consider him as a authority on this subject: ;-) http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/html/icb.topic58703/winston1.html Thanks -- I'll have a look! -- Jeff Squyres Cisco Systems

Re: [OMPI users] Open MPI instructional videos

2008-06-04 Thread Jeff Squyres
FWIW: I tried the http://adi.loris.tv/ompi-optimized.avi URL on my Mac and got redirected to the Quicktime plugin page. I had no idea which plugin would make it play AVI files, so I skipped it. I tried the URL on a Windows machine and Windows Media Player (i.e., what came up by default) s

Re: [OMPI users] Open MPI instructional videos

2008-06-04 Thread Adrian Knoth
On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 11:19:48AM +0200, Adrian Knoth wrote: > People usually recommend ffmpegX for OSX. You might give it a whirl to > transcode your mov to something else, let's say H.264 in an AVI > container. (MP4/AVC, DivX, xvid, there are so many names for it) I've checked your files, they

Re: [OMPI users] Open MPI instructional videos

2008-06-04 Thread Adrian Knoth
On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 04:48:50PM -0400, Jeff Squyres wrote: > As for .mov, yes, this is definitely a compromise. I tried uploading > the videos to YouTube and Google Video and a few others, but a) most QT sucks. Youtube (Flash) sucks. > slides look crappy and/or unreadable. So I had to

Re: [OMPI users] Open MPI instructional videos

2008-06-04 Thread Andreas Schäfer
On 16:48 Tue 03 Jun , Jeff Squyres wrote: > - more importantly, however, the audience likes to take the slides > away and when they actually look at them 6 weeks after the lecture, > they might actually remember the content better because they received > the same information via two forms

Re: [OMPI users] Open MPI instructional videos

2008-06-03 Thread Jeff Squyres
On May 30, 2008, at 9:55 AM, Andreas Schäfer wrote: I've never really dig into Open MPI's guts, not because I wasn't interested, but mainly because the time required to get my bearings seemed just too much. Until now. I've watched a couple of the videos while coding and it was pretty awesome. Ea

Re: [OMPI users] Open MPI instructional videos

2008-05-30 Thread Andreas Schäfer
I've never really dig into Open MPI's guts, not because I wasn't interested, but mainly because the time required to get my bearings seemed just too much. Until now. I've watched a couple of the videos while coding and it was pretty awesome. Easy to understand, structured and well spoken. On 12:41

Re: [OMPI users] Open MPI instructional videos

2008-05-28 Thread twurgl
Jeff, I started viewing some of these. I think this is great stuff. thanks! Jeff Squyres To Sent by: Open MPI Users

Re: [OMPI users] Open MPI instructional videos

2008-05-27 Thread Jeff Squyres
About a dozen people e-mailed me after I sent the first mail asking where the videos were located. :-) http://www.open-mpi.org/video/ Also, "Videos" is a link on the left-hand side navigation of the Open MPI web site, so there's no need to memorize the link. On May 27, 2008, at 6:43

Re: [OMPI users] Open MPI instructional videos

2008-05-27 Thread Graham Jenkins
Jeff Squyres wrote: > Over the past year or two, I have been slowly creating a large set of > Open MPI training material that I've used to present to my company's > customers and partners. I have just recently received permission to > release all of my slides to the greater HPC community. W

[OMPI users] Open MPI instructional videos

2008-05-27 Thread Jeff Squyres
Over the past year or two, I have been slowly creating a large set of Open MPI training material that I've used to present to my company's customers and partners. I have just recently received permission to release all of my slides to the greater HPC community. Woo hoo! Note that "receivi