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!
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