Mark,
Did Fred's tip below help at all?
Can you clarify what version of Memorize you're struggling with in
Sugar-on-a-Stick, that is lacking the Create tab you're trying to
showcase in the screencast?
On 3/19/2012 8:05 PM, Frederick Grose wrote:
On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 4:14 PM, Mark Battley <batt...@sympatico.ca
<mailto:batt...@sympatico.ca>> wrote:
Hi all:
As many of you already know, I have been exploring a range of
options for screencasts in advance of the April Manual book-sprint
in Boston in April. I have experimented with Sugar's Screencast,
recordmydesktop and, with emulators on the Mac (a 17" MBP, a 15"
MBP, and a 13" MB Air) using Screenflow.
We are looking at the full spectrum of options, but my
immediate question has to do with using SoaS on the emulators,
specifically VMware. The goal here is to get Record working within
the emulator, so that we can do screencasts that demonstrate the
full capability of Fototoon, Memorize and Scratch working in
combination with Record.
I have been using Fedora-16-x86_64-Live-SoaS.iso (but also
experimenting with F16-i686_SoaS_CL-disk1.vmdk)
We have had the most success with VMware:
* In Virtual Box, in Record, the Mac's mic works, but not the cam.
* In Parallels, in Record, the Mac's cam works for stills but
not video, and the mic is non-functional.
* In VMware, we have had both cam and mic fully functioning as
you can see in this very rough test:
* http://db.tt/NcPRRkiy
When it works, it works flawlessly.... but as often as not we get
this: "Record Failed To Start"
http://cl.ly/2H0x0b3i201d29142n1k
* We get this "Failed to Start" message on many other
Activities, not just Record. Often, by re-launching the
'machine' within VMware, or by re-starting VMware itself, the
problem goes away, but often it does not.
* Any success we have had has been on the MBP 15". We have yet
to get it to work reliably on the MBP 17" , and it has never
worked on the MB Air 13".
* This "Failed to Start" has shown up in Virtual Box as well on
the MBP 17
Please let me know if any of you have...
1) Experience running SoaS on an emulator on a Mac and have
successfully accessed record
2) Have any idea why we are getting the "Failed to Start" message
One possibility I've experienced is busy networking. One could use
the Log Activity to examine the shell and telepathy logs for evidence.
The failed launch will have a log that might show some information,
such as a timeout.
SoaS defaults to using jabber.sugarlabs.org
<http://jabber.sugarlabs.org>. Try removing that collaboration server
to eliminate this possibility.
--Fred
Mark Roy Battley
www.ntugigroup.org <http://www.ntugigroup.org>
www.ntugischool.com <http://www.ntugischool.com>
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