HTML5 is always the best way to go. We can also stream it through the program as an alternative. What about offline play?
Jason Odoom www.google.com/profiles/jasonodoom On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 1:25 PM, Ivo Reumkens <[email protected]> wrote: > I suggest videos with a link, and a turotorial in the tour how to install > the Flash Player or the Multimedia Extras (I thought it included > flashplayer). If Firefox 4 is released, you can always change it. > > 2010/9/23 Daniel Seemer <[email protected]> > > I want videos. So I Suggest >> - Videos are started with a link (surrounded by a little explanation) on >> the bottom of several tour-pages. >> - if you click, ubuntu-tour opens a local url in a new firefox-window. >> - Videos are played in Flash-Format, because firefox 4 with webm-feature >> is still beta >> - If ubuntu-tour is released for Natty, we can use the build in player >> >> The flash player needs to be installed, therefore we have several >> possibilities: >> - flashplayer is a dependency of ubuntu-tour package >> - button in ubuntu-tour to install flash-player via atp >> - tutorial in ubuntu-tour how to install flash-player >> - trust firefox: firefox leads the user to install the flashplayer >> >> Or: >> - Don't include videos for the maverick release, because there won't be >> many people going through the tour. >> - Therefore waiting for Natty which includes firefox 4. With natty we >> won't have any player problem >> >> >> >> >> On 23.09.2010 08:26, Silas Lenz wrote: >> >> Using the html5 video tag is possible. >> Also playing from youtube is possible without flash, maybe it is even >> possible to use the webm version from youtube but i don't know. >> I think we should use streaming, but make the tour usable without the >> videos. >> >> On 23 September 2010 00:03, Daniel Seemer <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> What about streaming Videos using popular internet video platforms? We >>> can use html. Mayby the webkitview can handle html5 video-tags? Maybe there >>> is a way to play videos from youtube without installed flashplayer? >>> I think wasting hundreds of megabytes of disk space for videos is silly >>> if users never watch them. >>> Or there will be additional ubuntutour-screencasts-en packages for each >>> language. >>> >>> But using videos is a great idea! >>> >>> >>> On 22.09.2010 19:29, Ivo Reumkens wrote: >>> >>> So each language need it's screenshots. Than I have a problem, because >>> Dutch isn't included on the live-cd, so I need a DVD with all languages. And >>> if you want videos, in all language to, then all videos are slightly >>> different. >>> >>> but here is another online screen application: >>> http://www.screentoaster.com/ >>> >>> 2010/9/22 Alexander Lancey <[email protected]> >>> >>>> We'll probably have a few vidoes by the finish. >>>> Tour size we can probably handle. Most likely, the tour, or at least the >>>> images, will be downloaded upon install instead of pre-installed. We'll >>>> have >>>> to do something of the sort, since each language will need its screenshots >>>> in a package (ubuntu-tour-screenshots_es, ubuntu-tour-screenshots_fr, etc). >>>> >>>> >>>> On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 11:00 PM, K.de Jong <[email protected]>wrote: >>>> >>>>> I like the progress we have made already. >>>>> >>>>> But, my initial thoughts for a tour application were some sort of >>>>> picture and video howto's. >>>>> Texts are always needed and pictures too. >>>>> but I do hope we can do some videos too. >>>>> >>>>> Looking at the size of pictures we have already >>>>> I wonder if some of that can be made automatically, >>>>> this would reduce the amount of files in the package. >>>>> but this may be wishful thinking... >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> 2010/9/22 Jason Cook <[email protected]>: >>>>> > I aggree that basics are important and if we don't have time for a >>>>> proper >>>>> > advanced section, then we should wait. >>>>> > PS: I love the name Natty too >>>>> > >>>>> > On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 7:27 PM, Alexander Lancey < >>>>> [email protected]> >>>>> > wrote: >>>>> >> >>>>> >> I think it will be a goal for Natty (I love that name). I would like >>>>> to >>>>> >> see an advanced section eventually, but I think the basics are more >>>>> >> important. >>>>> >> >>>>> >> -Alex >>>>> >> >>>>> >> On Tue, 2010-09-21 at 19:23 -0400, Jason Cook wrote: >>>>> >> > If including an advanced section is denied I will help you with >>>>> >> > creating the advanced section. This is something that I think >>>>> would be >>>>> >> > very useful for some new users. >>>>> >> > >>>>> >> > On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 6:36 PM, David Tigue <[email protected]> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >> > I think an advanced section would be something to think >>>>> about. >>>>> >> > Maybe not >>>>> >> > in the initial release, or the version on the live disk, >>>>> but >>>>> >> > maybe >>>>> >> > something in the way of a plug-in that can be installed >>>>> later >>>>> >> > from the >>>>> >> > repos. I would think a place for advanced users to be able >>>>> to >>>>> >> > quick >>>>> >> > reference stuff like a simple samba/nfs/sftp setup, lamp >>>>> >> > setup, or maybe >>>>> >> > even something a little less advanced would be nice to >>>>> have. I >>>>> >> > have >>>>> >> > always been real bad to forget advanced commands in the >>>>> past. >>>>> >> > A place to >>>>> >> > look stuff up like that instead of doing a separate web >>>>> search >>>>> >> > for >>>>> >> > anything I need would be a huge help. Think of it as a >>>>> melting >>>>> >> > pot for >>>>> >> > all the on-line documents advanced users have to search >>>>> for >>>>> >> > everyday. >>>>> >> > Maybe it could be totally separate from the Ubuntu-tour. >>>>> >> > Something like >>>>> >> > Ubuntu-advanced-tour. If you guys don't like the idea of >>>>> >> > something like >>>>> >> > that, then do I have permission to start something on the >>>>> side >>>>> >> > for more >>>>> >> > advanced users, using some code from Ubuntu-tour ? >>>>> >> > >>>>> >> > >>>>> >> > _______________________________________________ >>>>> >> > Mailing list: >>>>> >> > https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-tour<https://launchpad.net/%7Eubuntu-tour> >>>>> >> > Post to : [email protected] >>>>> >> > Unsubscribe : >>>>> >> > https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-tour<https://launchpad.net/%7Eubuntu-tour> >>>>> >> > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >>>>> >> > >>>>> >> > >>>>> >> > >>>>> >> > >>>>> >> > -- >>>>> >> > Jason Cook >>>>> >> > _______________________________________________ >>>>> >> > Mailing list: >>>>> >> > https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-tour<https://launchpad.net/%7Eubuntu-tour> >>>>> >> > Post to : [email protected] >>>>> >> > Unsubscribe : >>>>> >> > https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-tour<https://launchpad.net/%7Eubuntu-tour> >>>>> >> > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >>>>> >> >>>>> >> >>>>> >> >>>>> >> _______________________________________________ >>>>> >> Mailing list: >>>>> >> https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-tour<https://launchpad.net/%7Eubuntu-tour> >>>>> >> Post to : [email protected] >>>>> >> Unsubscribe : >>>>> >> https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-tour<https://launchpad.net/%7Eubuntu-tour> >>>>> >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >>>>> >> >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > -- >>>>> > Jason Cook >>>>> > >>>>> > _______________________________________________ >>>>> > Mailing list: >>>>> > https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-tour<https://launchpad.net/%7Eubuntu-tour> >>>>> > Post to : [email protected] >>>>> > Unsubscribe : >>>>> > https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-tour<https://launchpad.net/%7Eubuntu-tour> >>>>> > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Met vriendelijke groeten, >>>>> Keimpe de Jong >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Mailing list: >>>> https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-tour<https://launchpad.net/%7Eubuntu-tour> >>>> Post to : [email protected] >>>> Unsubscribe : >>>> https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-tour<https://launchpad.net/%7Eubuntu-tour> >>>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >>>> >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-tour >>> <https://launchpad.net/%7Eubuntu-tour> >>> Post to : [email protected] >>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-tour >>> <https://launchpad.net/%7Eubuntu-tour> >>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Mailing list: >>> https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-tour<https://launchpad.net/%7Eubuntu-tour> >>> Post to : [email protected] >>> Unsubscribe : >>> https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-tour<https://launchpad.net/%7Eubuntu-tour> >>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-tour >> <https://launchpad.net/%7Eubuntu-tour> >> Post to : [email protected] >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-tour >> <https://launchpad.net/%7Eubuntu-tour> >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: >> https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-tour<https://launchpad.net/%7Eubuntu-tour> >> Post to : [email protected] >> Unsubscribe : >> https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-tour<https://launchpad.net/%7Eubuntu-tour> >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-tour > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-tour > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >
_______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-tour Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-tour More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
