On Wednesday, September 5, 2018 at 3:17:14 AM UTC-5, Artyom Shalkhakov 
wrote:
>
> I've watched this video in full and it's nice! You took a problem and 
> presented solutions with their pros and cons.
>
> Since you're recording your terminal, you might settle for very simple 
> "tele typing" or some such. I guess there was project for doing just that: 
> recording terminal interaction and then playing it back in the browser. 
> This should make it simpler for you to host your videos.
>
>
You might be thinking of https://asciinema.org/ , which has some advantages 
(copy and paste!), and the big disadvantage of no sound. It's probably a 
good alternative to my latest video.
 

> How do you make these videos? I'll probably record something as well!
>  
>

On ChromeOS I pay for Screencastify 
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/screencastify-screen-vide/mmeijimgabbpbgpdklnllpncmdofkcpn

It can record your entire screen, one Chrome tab, or a separate window (for 
my videos a Linux terminal provided by Crostini--a ChromeOS feature that's 
still in beta for most devices), and it comes with a simple cropping tool 
plus a slightly more advanced editor. Some of their animations show macOS 
window features, so it works on multiple platforms. I haven't tried it off 
of ChromeOS though.
Screencastify can also record your webcam, either as the entire video or as 
a small box within the main recording.

I recorded the first few videos on macOS, using QuickTime Player. There are 
some instructions 
here: 
https://support.apple.com/guide/quicktime-player/record-your-screen-qtp97b08e666/mac
A nice thing about QuickTime Player is that you can draw an arbitrary box 
on your screen and record only whatever's in that box. So for example you 
could normally have a terminal, but then drag a browser into view for a bit.

On Linux I've used ffmpeg alone to record screencasts, but that requires a 
lot of hand-holding to get started. ffmpeg is a Swiss Army Knife for 
working with videos even if you don't use it to record videos though. I 
used it to attach music to the latest video, and I used it to re-encode 
QuickTime Player's videos into .webm format

  # turn .mp4 into .webm
  ffmpeg -i somevid.mp4 somevid.webm

  # take a short silent video + hours of music and copy as much music as 
needed onto the video
  ffmpeg -i electroswing.mp3 -i screencast-silent.webm -codec copy 
-shortest screencast.webm 

Probably most people use https://obsproject.com/ - it works on multiple 
platforms and has a ton of features, and is free. I've never used it :)

For hosting the videos, if you have .webm then you can view it with pretty 
much any browser after putting it on any server. I have just have a shared 
hosting account with unmetered disk storage -- for marketing reasons 
everyone calls it "unlimited", but what's really meant is that your hosting 
fees don't vary by how large your files are. As a result of the marketing 
reasons, the practical limit is usually fairly high for the price.

And of course you can upload to a video hosting site. Bitchute requires you 
validate your email address, and then you can create a channel and upload 
to it. With Youtube you can freely upload videos below 15min; for longer 
videos I only needed to verify my phone, but there may be other 
requirements. The experience in both cases is similar: you give them your 
video which can be a number of formats, and some extra information, and 
they process the video before listing it. The other day Bitchute was quite 
slow to publish a video, but it's been just fine, lately.

Youtube has a lot of advantages:
1. it's big so you'll get the widest audience
2. it encodes your video across many quality settings (bitchute just has 
one)
3. it doesn't use bittorrent so it won't get firewalled as easily (you can 
turn that off for bitchute, but it's best to use it if you can)
4. you get a lot of options to change the appearance of your channel

It also has some unique (and severe) disadvantages but they *probably* 
won't strike a channel about a programming language.
...If you add music like I did on the latest video, that's probably the 
only thing that might cause annoyances for you with Youtube.
...in fact I'll go ahead and set up a Youtube copy of my Bitchute channel.

I've tried a built-in mic (too much environmental audio) and a headset mic 
(too much nonvocal audio) and settled on Blue Microphones' 
products: https://www.amazon.com/l/2529047011

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