[Cialug] Screen cast formats?

[Josh More]

For this group, I see the following reasons to record/broadcast our
meetings.

1) It's a form of giving back to the community.
2) It boosts the "awareness" factor of both the group and members of
the group.  This is good for consultants (like me) and for job hunters.
3) If we simulcast, Nathan Stein might be able to be more active.

I agree with Brandon's assessments being acceptable for Linux geeks and
that we would dual-broadcast on YouTube, whatever the primary format
winds up being.


 

-Josh More, RHCE, CISSP, NCLP, GIAC 
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>>> "Brandon Griffis" <brandongriffis at gmail.com> 01/17/08 4:16 PM >>> 
Who would our audience be?

Theora is nice for our own copies.  Best quality, and promotes a
potential
cause.  But I would suggest whatever format we use that we also post
to
youtube.  We can link to our own hosting site from the clips so people
can
download and have info about the codec.  It also eliminates the need to
host
our own flash player for Theora.

Youtube gets us possible random hits, it's easy to link to and from,
everyone trusts it, and it shows that even though we're geeks we're
willing
to work within popular mechanisms for promotion/distribution.

-B

On Jan 17, 2008 2:18 PM, Matt Millard <gocyclones at eml.cc> wrote:

> 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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