Have you tried using asciinema to record terminal sessions? https://asciinema.org/ On Aug 2, 2015 7:48 PM, "Greg Wilson" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Sheila; thanks for your mail. +1 to indexing events vs. one-offs, and > to YouTube hosting. We still haven't found a decent tool for recording > terminal sessions - I really want something that records text *as text* > (better for accessibility, better for rescaling, smaller payload), but (a) > nothing I've found does what I want, and (b) it obviously doesn't integrate > with classic pixel-stream video, so I'll be happy with whatever's easiest > to produce. > > Cheers, > Greg > > On 2015-07-30 4:31 PM, sheila miguez wrote: > >> I've talked this over with Will (I've cc-d him so he can pipe up if I >> have it wrong) before because I was wondering about having a category for >> Software Carpentry videos. The consensus we reached was to index events >> versus one-off videos. If you or anyone have a corner case that you think >> might fit, I'd recommend opening an issue in pyvideo/pyvideo. >> >> Now on to the next questions. >> >> For hosting, right now I'd say to host on YouTube and also upload the >> file(s) to a bucket on the Internet Archive. I have $reasons I can tl;dr if >> anyone is curious. >> >> For screen capture and audio, >> >> I'm going to cc Carl because he knows more about the hardware method than >> I do. I'm also cc-ing Greg because he has thought about this a great deal. >> >> Can we fip this list to public so that I can link to posts to people who >> aren't subscribed? I could link this one to the Software Carpentry list and >> ask if they have more recommendations. >> >> For software, I don't have experience with that, but on the Software >> Carpentry mailing list there was a post about this recently, < >> http://lists.software-carpentry.org/pipermail/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org/2015-June/003148.html> >> and as of that post, Camstasia is recommended. I have no experience with it. >> >> For stuff without sound, I am obsessed with finding tools for excellently >> recording terminals, I don't have a favorite and I haven't experimented a >> whole lot. I recently discovered mkcast, < >> http://lists.software-carpentry.org/pipermail/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org/2015-July/003200.html> >> which is neat because it overlays characters you type. That's nice for >> teaching because it shows invisible characters. >> >> on a tangent, for live casting, I've used ttycast before, which was >> kickass because it gave a webpage where people could follow along and >> copy-paste text. but better would be something that allows live casting >> which displays an overlay of the keys that are being pressed. >> >> For format choice >> >> From my point of view, >> >> 1. Anything that you can upload to youtube so that I can embed it in >> pyvideo. >> 2. Anything that is a FLOSS friendly format that you can upload to >> archive.org <http://archive.org> or wikimedia commons so that I can >> provide a link to a downloadable file that anyone can use. >> >> A nice feature of archive.org <http://archive.org> is that you can >> upload something and it will transcode the heck out of things and you'll >> end up with all kinds of formats. You might want to do the transcoding >> yourself in order to get the best results, ask Carl about that because he >> has a lot of experience transcoding things and picking formats and picking >> the best settings. >> >> On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 10:04 AM, Brian Ray <[email protected] <mailto: >> [email protected]>> wrote: >> >> Sheila: >> >> Outside of conferences, is it possible to submit videos one >> records of their own desktop? For example, say I want to record >> myself going through a tutorial with just screenshare and audio. >> How does this work? Will PyVideo host? What software and format do >> I need to use? >> >> >> On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 10:49 AM, sheila miguez <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> I finally wrote a wiki page about how to suggest videos for >> pyvideo.org <http://pyvideo.org>. >> >> < >> https://github.com/pyvideo/pyvideo/wiki/Suggesting-videos-for-the-site> >> >> This goes in a little bit of detail about the type of >> information we'd like >> about videos. >> >> cheers! >> >> -- >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> -------------- next part -------------- >> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... >> URL: >> < >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/private/group-organizers/attachments/20150730/95fd45cf/attachment.html >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> Group-Organizers mailing list >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/group-organizers >> >> >> >> >> -- Brian Ray >> @brianray >> (773) 669-7717 <tel:%28773%29%20669-7717> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> > > -- > Dr. Greg Wilson | [email protected] > Software Carpentry | http://software-carpentry.org > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/group-organizers/attachments/20150802/95c6cd84/attachment.html > > > _______________________________________________ > Group-Organizers mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/group-organizers > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/group-organizers/attachments/20150803/d159009d/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Group-Organizers mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/group-organizers
