[TurboGears] Re: Choice of video capture software and medium.
On Nov 2, 2005, at 8:27 AM, Kevin Dangoor wrote: On 11/1/05, Matthew Bevan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I find it pretty great that the 20-minute video and various feature show-offs for CatWalk are being done in video. Realtime demonstrations can often have more impact than written descriptions, however, I have problems with the choice of medium. On my wonderful 64-bit laptop, when I play those quicktime videos I get no audio. On the other hand, I have Macromedia Flash running without a problem. (A feat on 64-bit assisted by a binary version of Firefox). Have you tried VLC by any chance? It may not work with the codec that I've used for this incarnation of the video. I'm not sure, but VLC plays an awful lot of files. I am planning to try different codecs to improve compatibility for Linux users. If I had the money for Sorenson Squeeze, I'd generate SWFs. Or, if I was using Camtasia on Windows I could likely do it there as well. Camtasia has other features and is tempting... it's a pity it's Windows only. At the moment, I just don't have the time to try and wire up something like vnc2swf with audio on my Mac. ffmpeg can transcode to flv, which should be playable anywhere Flash or VLC are around. -bob
[TurboGears] Re: Choice of video capture software and medium.
Have you tried VLC by any chance? It may not work with the codec that I've used for this incarnation of the video. I'm not sure, but VLC plays an awful lot of files. VLC in their features list does not mention QuickTime, so I will assume it uses the same technology that mplayer does - that is, it utilizes emulation of Windows codecs under foreign systems. Again, that isn't going to cut it for my loverly 64-bit system. Experimenting with mplayer-bin under Gentoo it seems to work, but suffers from interesting problems due to linking against odd library versions. (For example, mine is unable to deal with spaces in names, no matter how quoted or escaped I make it. ;)
[TurboGears] Re: Choice of video capture software and medium.
On 11/6/05, Matthew Bevan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you tried VLC by any chance? It may not work with the codec that I've used for this incarnation of the video. I'm not sure, but VLC plays an awful lot of files. VLC in their features list does not mention QuickTime, so I will assume it uses the same technology that mplayer does - that is, it utilizes emulation of Windows codecs under foreign systems. Again, that isn't going to cut it for my loverly 64-bit system. Actually, VLC does support QuickTime (the MOV container format). Experimenting with mplayer-bin under Gentoo it seems to work, but suffers from interesting problems due to linking against odd library versions. (For example, mine is unable to deal with spaces in names, no matter how quoted or escaped I make it. ;) I just tried the 20 Minute Wiki with VLC, and it doesn't work. I'm not surprised that the Apple Animation codec is not supported. However, if I do future screencasts in QuickTime format with DivX encoding for the video and AAC for the audio, all should be well. Anywhere VLC runs, the video should run. Kevin -- Kevin Dangoor Author of the Zesty News RSS newsreader email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] company: http://www.BlazingThings.com blog: http://www.BlueSkyOnMars.com
[TurboGears] Re: Choice of video capture software and medium.
Kevin Dangoor wrote: On 11/6/05, Matthew Bevan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you tried VLC by any chance? It may not work with the codec that I've used for this incarnation of the video. I'm not sure, but VLC plays an awful lot of files. VLC in their features list does not mention QuickTime, so I will assume it uses the same technology that mplayer does - that is, it utilizes emulation of Windows codecs under foreign systems. Again, that isn't going to cut it for my loverly 64-bit system. Actually, VLC does support QuickTime (the MOV container format). It's all about the codecs you have installed. But I also get really finicky results using mplayer, vlc, and xine -- each of them plays things the others won't at times. I think I played the TG screencast in xine with win32codecs installed. -- Ian Bicking | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://blog.ianbicking.org
[TurboGears] Re: Choice of video capture software and medium.
On 11/1/05, Matthew Bevan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Howdy! I find it pretty great that the 20-minute video and various feature show-offs for CatWalk are being done in video. Realtime demonstrations can often have more impact than written descriptions, however, I have problems with the choice of medium. On my wonderful 64-bit laptop, when I play those quicktime videos I get no audio. On the other hand, I have Macromedia Flash running without a problem. (A feat on 64-bit assisted by a binary version of Firefox). Have you tried VLC by any chance? It may not work with the codec that I've used for this incarnation of the video. I'm not sure, but VLC plays an awful lot of files. I am planning to try different codecs to improve compatibility for Linux users. If I had the money for Sorenson Squeeze, I'd generate SWFs. Or, if I was using Camtasia on Windows I could likely do it there as well. Camtasia has other features and is tempting... it's a pity it's Windows only. At the moment, I just don't have the time to try and wire up something like vnc2swf with audio on my Mac. With built-in playback features (play, pause, seek bar) and several modes of capture (including audio), I wouldn't mind seeing a demonstration done using vnc2swf. Resulting files have the potential to be very, very small. The size, of course, is mostly due to the codec and options chosen. I've heard good things about H.264, but that requires folks to be running the latest QuickTime. Sorenson Squeeze is supposed to put together very good quality, highly compressed swfs. They do have a Flash-specific version. I might be able to finagle an upgrade from my old Flash 4 to the latest and then get the Sorenson package for Flash. It's likely that the next screencast will be QuickTime, but in a more friendly codec. I'll try to check it with VLC first to make sure that a broad audience can watch. Kevin
