Re: [ubuntu-uk] Thursday night movie

2006-11-11 Thread Alan Pope
On Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 01:19:54PM +, Andy wrote: > Just had a quick go at a screencast myself. > How to change the desktop background (yes I know its simple, but I > thought I would start out small). > All I need to do is find some way of editing the mpeg file, there's > some stuff at the begi

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Thursday night movie

2006-11-11 Thread Andy
Just had a quick go at a screencast myself. How to change the desktop background (yes I know its simple, but I thought I would start out small). All I need to do is find some way of editing the mpeg file, there's some stuff at the beginning and end that needs trimming. I also need to add audio to i

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Thursday night movie

2006-11-11 Thread Pete Ryland
On 11/11/06, Norman Silverstone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks to everyone for their help and advice. Having gone to the website > I left clicked on the title I wanted and then right clicked on the video > file and saved it to disc. Plays well using Movie Player. > > I believe this could be ve

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Thursday night movie

2006-11-11 Thread Norman Silverstone
> > I think Al said something about making a webpage with the links on > > them at some point, when that page exists you can right click on it in > > FireFox. > > > > Correct. It's done. http://quickones.org/ > > Click the title of one you want to download (or the read more link) then you > ca

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Thursday night movie

2006-11-10 Thread Alan Pope
On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 10:21:30PM +, Andy wrote: > OK, its official I'm an idiot yet again. > Colour me stupid too then. I even *mentioned* the mailing list archive and didn't twig of doing this :) > oh and it turns out networking on the VM is automatic so no setup needed by > me. > Or

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Thursday night movie

2006-11-10 Thread Alan Pope
On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 10:06:37PM +, Andy wrote: > I think Al said something about making a webpage with the links on > them at some point, when that page exists you can right click on it in > FireFox. > Correct. It's done. http://quickones.org/ Click the title of one you want to download (

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Thursday night movie

2006-11-10 Thread Andy
OK, its official I'm an idiot yet again. There is an easier way to download popey's screencasts. Even though you probably read your email in an email client, the archives are web based, thus if you read the message in the archive you get the FireFox download option! Why I didn't think of this 5 m

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Thursday night movie

2006-11-10 Thread Andy
On 10/11/06, Norman Silverstone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I assume that I am using a different version of Ubuntu to you. When I > right click on the URL I get two possibilities neither of which is the > one you quoted. Ah, that was my mistake sorry. I use web based email so I access these messa

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Thursday night movie

2006-11-10 Thread Norman Silverstone
> > All that I have done so far is to click on the URL given. This then > > starts the video. Perhaps there is another way to open the video > > I normally right click and choose 'save target as...' this can be used > to save to hard disk, then you can open the file with anything you > want. I a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Thursday night movie

2006-11-10 Thread Tony Arnold
Andy, Have a look at the script referred to from this article: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=187413 It worked for me! Regards, Tony. Andy wrote: > On 10/11/06, Alan Pope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> If there are any errors or omissions let me know, I've not updated it for >> edgy,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Thursday night movie

2006-11-10 Thread Andy
On 10/11/06, Alan Pope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If there are any errors or omissions let me know, I've not updated it for > edgy, but i use > the process in that page for compiling qemu myself. I followed the instructions, first problem is the directory for kqemu isn't kqemu, it has a version

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Thursday night movie

2006-11-10 Thread Alan Pope
On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 03:11:19PM +, Andy wrote: > On 10/11/06, Alan Pope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Are you using the kqemu (non-free kernel module) accellerator with qemu? It > > makes a > > tremendous difference to the performance. > > no, I just used qemu on its own. This is my first

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Thursday night movie

2006-11-10 Thread Andy
On 10/11/06, Alan Pope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are you using the kqemu (non-free kernel module) accellerator with qemu? It > makes a > tremendous difference to the performance. no, I just used qemu on its own. This is my first time with any kind of VM, just wanted to see if I could make some

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Thursday night movie

2006-11-10 Thread Alan Pope
On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 01:34:56PM +, Norman Silverstone wrote: > All that I have done so far is to click on the URL given. This then > starts the video. Perhaps there is another way to open the video, I must > investigate. > Yes, that's as I suspected you might. Over the weekend I'll put a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Thursday night movie

2006-11-10 Thread Norman Silverstone
> The pausability is down to the player. If the videos are downloaded to your > local PC and > played in something like totem, gxine, mplayer or vlc then it should be > pausable. I have > certanily paused the video in totem on my PC. If the videos open directly in > the browser > then it mig

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Thursday night movie

2006-11-10 Thread Alan Pope
On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 12:49:33PM +, Andy wrote: > If you use mPlayer in FireFox you may need to right click on the video > while it is playing and check 'show controls', it should provide you > with play and pause at the bottom of the page > Ooo, never knew that. I think I'll have a go at

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Thursday night movie

2006-11-10 Thread Alan Pope
On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 12:05:27PM +, Norman Silverstone wrote: > I am most impressed by your work in producing these videos and I would > find them most useful as a learning tool. Just a thought. Would it be > possible to have a means of pausing and restarting the video? This would > then enab

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Thursday night movie

2006-11-10 Thread Alan Pope
On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 11:30:43PM +, Alan Pope wrote: > Ok, so it's a screencast, not a movie. > > Tonight is "Installing Flash Player 7 and 9 (beta) on Ubuntu". > > http://quickones.org/videos/20061109_installing_flash.mpeg (70.8MiB) (ouch!) > http://quickones.org/videos/20061109_installing

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Thursday night movie

2006-11-10 Thread Andy
Hi all On 10/11/06, Norman Silverstone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just a thought. Would it be > possible to have a means of pausing and restarting the video? Whatever your viewing the video in should provide that for you. If yo view them in your web browser the plugin may not provide you with c

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Thursday night movie

2006-11-10 Thread gord
On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 23:30 +, Alan Pope wrote: > Ok, so it's a screencast, not a movie. > > Tonight is "Installing Flash Player 7 and 9 (beta) on Ubuntu". > > http://quickones.org/videos/20061109_installing_flash.mpeg (70.8MiB) (ouch!) > http://quickones.org/videos/20061109_installing_flash.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Thursday night movie

2006-11-10 Thread Norman Silverstone
> Tonight is "Installing Flash Player 7 and 9 (beta) on Ubuntu". > > http://quickones.org/videos/20061109_installing_flash.mpeg (70.8MiB) (ouch!) > http://quickones.org/videos/20061109_installing_flash.ogg (23.1MiB) > http://quickones.org/videos/20061109_installing_flash.mp4 (12.5MiB) (320x240)

[ubuntu-uk] Thursday night movie

2006-11-09 Thread Alan Pope
Ok, so it's a screencast, not a movie. Tonight is "Installing Flash Player 7 and 9 (beta) on Ubuntu". http://quickones.org/videos/20061109_installing_flash.mpeg (70.8MiB) (ouch!) http://quickones.org/videos/20061109_installing_flash.ogg (23.1MiB) http://quickones.org/videos/20061109_installing_f