[Cialug] Screen cast formats?

Matt Millard gocyclones at eml.cc
Thu Jan 17 14:18:26 CST 2008


So I've been doing testing of different screen recorders on Linux. Notes
are here:
http://www.thevug.org/components/com_mambowiki/index.php?title=Screen_cast
One question I'd like to throw out there is what format would we want to
post these videos of our presentations in?  We'll likely use the
software to record during LUG meetings too if we have a presenter.  What
I'm thinking of doing is running this in a VM so that it can be
transfered around to different laptops and always have our setup
available.

    * Ogg Theora
       - Open source reference implimentation
       - However not everyone has the codec to view the videos
       - Possible solution is http://www.flumotion.net/cortado/ web
         player for Ogg Theora
    * Flash - YouTube etc.
       - Huge audiance
    * mpeg - iTunes
       - Distributing as a video podcast
    * Streaming?
       - Add IRC to the mix and you could have interaction remotely with
         the live presentation.
       - uStream.tv

Not all of the software I've tried does all of the formats, but it
should be possible to convert to whatever we need.  So what do you think
we should be doing?

Matt
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