Thanks for your work, Scott. I should have said that I don't think anything I complained about was your doing.
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 10:02 AM, C. Scott Ananian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 2:49 PM, Yoshiki Ohshima <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> At Mon, 26 May 2008 14:58:06 -0400, >> C. Scott Ananian wrote: >>> I've now encoded and uploaded video from all of last Tuesday's talks; >>> links at the url above. Hopefully I will be able to get a copy of the >> Thank you! However, the video part of Alan Kay's talk is frozen at >> one point and never comes back. Is it possible to resurrect it? > > And Edward Cherlin wrote: >>I got to see only short bits of Nicholas's presentations, using Gnash on >>Ubuntu. The others I tried seemed to be complete. >> The slide decks are very badly formatted, with text running off the pages, >> and remarkably uninformative. >> Alan Kay's presentation is one of the best I have ever seen. Thanks. > > Please let me know the exact URL you had trouble viewing, and > double-check the sizes against the index listing on > http://download.laptop.org/content/conf/20080520-country-wkshp/Video/2008-05-20/ > to ensure you have the whole file. Also the setup you are using. In my case, 64-bit Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy) Firefox 3.0b5 Gnash 0.8.2-0ubuntu3 The small SWFs are too small on the screen, and I haven't gotten sound from any that I tried. Wait, I see that there are medium-sized SWFs at http://download.laptop.org/content/conf/20080520-country-wkshp/Video/2008-05-20/. OK, I can view them, but I still don't get sound. Today the Oggs play correctly. I don't know what happened yesterday. The PDFs are broken in Document Viewer and Xpdf. They could be fixed in Inkscape, but I don't have the time to do it. > There are multiple versions of > each talk, and it's possible that I goofed encoding some of them, but > it's tedious for me to view them all (again!) to figure out which one > you might have been having problems with. The source DVD seems to be > complete, so I should be able to correct any problems you find. > > If you originally downloaded the files before Tuesday, you might also > try redownloading them, as you may have been seeing partial files > before then. > > Finally, the .ppt files posted at > http://download.laptop.org/content/conf/20080520-country-wkshp/Presentations/ > are in most cases the originals. I converted them to PDF in > OpenOffice, but I didn't have time (or the Microsoft software) to > verify that the PDF conversions were accurate. In at least some > cases, the .ppts seem to have been saved without the images they > referenced. Although I haven't run into any missing graphics yet, the text layout in the PPTs are equally broken, but in OpenOffice Impress, I can read the text that runs off the page when I select the slide. It would be much easier to fix these files, but still time-consuming. We must ask for volunteers. Is anybody with a bit of spare time comfortable with reformatting in OpenOffice Impress? We just need line breaks and text size adjusted, as far as I know. I can provide coaching, if needed. > If people are willing to do the work to determine exactly which files > have which problems (and/or give me better PDF/ogg/swf conversions > where OpenOffice/gstreamer/ffmpeg is falling down on the job) I'll > pester the people involved for missing bits and update the versions on > download.laptop.org. > > On the other hand, I can't help it if the slides for some of the talks > are uninformative =). (Actually, I'm already doing what I can, which > is trying to get video to supplement the slides.) > > Unsplit DVD-format video for Wed, Thurs, and Fri should be ready on > Monday (I'm told); it will probably take another few days after that > to get it encoded in more viewer-friendly formats. > --scott > > -- > ( http://cscott.net/ ) > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > -- Edward Cherlin End Poverty at a Profit by teaching children business http://www.EarthTreasury.org/ "The best way to predict the future is to invent it."--Alan Kay _______________________________________________ Olpc-open mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-open
