On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 10:43:17AM +0000, David Morley wrote: > for those unsure how to get on to irc here is a short how-to > www.davmor2.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/gaimopen.html >
Alternatively you can watch a video about it :) "I made this" http://quickones.org/videos/20061031_xchat.ogg It's 5 mins long and 9.8MiB in size and is in the lovely open OGG format so should play on any Linux box. If you have a windows machine you want to play it on then I'd suggest one of the following:- a) Install Linux or b) Install the directshow filters [0] Here's what I did to make the video. * Installed recordmydesktop, audacity and qemu * Created a disk image and installed ubuntu into it under qemu * Did all necessary updates to the virtual machine but that's all - so it's a basic install. * Make a backup of the qemu disk image. * Start qemu, practice run through of what I plan to record a few times - this included installing and removing the software I planned to demo a few times. * I also created a new user in the virtual machine under ubuntu so that it would be "clean" and thus would be illustrative of a real session a typical new user would experience. * Run xwininfo to find out the xwindows window-id of the qemu window * Run recordmydesktop specifying the option to NOT record audio. * Switch to the qemu session, do the demo, when finished, kill recordmydesktop. * Play back the ogg to make sure it's okay and think about what I'll say during the video. * Run audacity and record myself talking whilst watching the video. I ended up doing this a few times * Mix the audio and video together using a script I found on the Fedora Wiki [1]. It didn't work for gstreamer 0.10, being designed for gstreamer 0.8. However the guys in #gstreamer (appropriately) on IRC helped me modify it. I have put it online [2]. It takes 3 arguments - the wav audio, the ogg video and an output file. After some CPU mashing you get a video with the audio mixed in. It also compresses the video better than the default setting of recordmydesktop so the result is a nice small video which is still watchable. * Watch it, put it online. Things it needs:- * Better quality (and louder) audio. * A header and footer slide to introduce the video and show contact details. * Modification to the oggmix.sh script to automatically add the header/footer. What else? Comments very welcome. Cheers, Al. [0] - http://www.illiminable.com/ogg/ [1] - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ScreenCasting [2] - http://bishop.popey.com/temp/oggmix.sh -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
