I suggest videos with a link, and a turotorial in the tour how to install the Flash Player or the Multimedia Extras (I thought it included flashplayer). If Firefox 4 is released, you can always change it.
2010/9/23 Daniel Seemer <[email protected]> > I want videos. So I Suggest > - Videos are started with a link (surrounded by a little explanation) on > the bottom of several tour-pages. > - if you click, ubuntu-tour opens a local url in a new firefox-window. > - Videos are played in Flash-Format, because firefox 4 with webm-feature > is still beta > - If ubuntu-tour is released for Natty, we can use the build in player > > The flash player needs to be installed, therefore we have several > possibilities: > - flashplayer is a dependency of ubuntu-tour package > - button in ubuntu-tour to install flash-player via atp > - tutorial in ubuntu-tour how to install flash-player > - trust firefox: firefox leads the user to install the flashplayer > > Or: > - Don't include videos for the maverick release, because there won't be > many people going through the tour. > - Therefore waiting for Natty which includes firefox 4. With natty we > won't have any player problem > > > > > On 23.09.2010 08:26, Silas Lenz wrote: > > Using the html5 video tag is possible. > Also playing from youtube is possible without flash, maybe it is even > possible to use the webm version from youtube but i don't know. > I think we should use streaming, but make the tour usable without the > videos. > > On 23 September 2010 00:03, Daniel Seemer <[email protected]> wrote: > >> What about streaming Videos using popular internet video platforms? We can >> use html. Mayby the webkitview can handle html5 video-tags? Maybe there is a >> way to play videos from youtube without installed flashplayer? >> I think wasting hundreds of megabytes of disk space for videos is silly if >> users never watch them. >> Or there will be additional ubuntutour-screencasts-en packages for each >> language. >> >> But using videos is a great idea! >> >> >> On 22.09.2010 19:29, Ivo Reumkens wrote: >> >> So each language need it's screenshots. Than I have a problem, because >> Dutch isn't included on the live-cd, so I need a DVD with all languages. And >> if you want videos, in all language to, then all videos are slightly >> different. >> >> but here is another online screen application: >> http://www.screentoaster.com/ >> >> 2010/9/22 Alexander Lancey <[email protected]> >> >>> We'll probably have a few vidoes by the finish. >>> Tour size we can probably handle. Most likely, the tour, or at least the >>> images, will be downloaded upon install instead of pre-installed. We'll have >>> to do something of the sort, since each language will need its screenshots >>> in a package (ubuntu-tour-screenshots_es, ubuntu-tour-screenshots_fr, etc). >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 11:00 PM, K.de Jong <[email protected]>wrote: >>> >>>> I like the progress we have made already. >>>> >>>> But, my initial thoughts for a tour application were some sort of >>>> picture and video howto's. >>>> Texts are always needed and pictures too. >>>> but I do hope we can do some videos too. >>>> >>>> Looking at the size of pictures we have already >>>> I wonder if some of that can be made automatically, >>>> this would reduce the amount of files in the package. >>>> but this may be wishful thinking... >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> 2010/9/22 Jason Cook <[email protected]>: >>>> > I aggree that basics are important and if we don't have time for a >>>> proper >>>> > advanced section, then we should wait. >>>> > PS: I love the name Natty too >>>> > >>>> > On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 7:27 PM, Alexander Lancey <[email protected] >>>> > >>>> > wrote: >>>> >> >>>> >> I think it will be a goal for Natty (I love that name). I would like >>>> to >>>> >> see an advanced section eventually, but I think the basics are more >>>> >> important. >>>> >> >>>> >> -Alex >>>> >> >>>> >> On Tue, 2010-09-21 at 19:23 -0400, Jason Cook wrote: >>>> >> > If including an advanced section is denied I will help you with >>>> >> > creating the advanced section. This is something that I think would >>>> be >>>> >> > very useful for some new users. >>>> >> > >>>> >> > On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 6:36 PM, David Tigue <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> >> > I think an advanced section would be something to think >>>> about. >>>> >> > Maybe not >>>> >> > in the initial release, or the version on the live disk, >>>> but >>>> >> > maybe >>>> >> > something in the way of a plug-in that can be installed >>>> later >>>> >> > from the >>>> >> > repos. I would think a place for advanced users to be able >>>> to >>>> >> > quick >>>> >> > reference stuff like a simple samba/nfs/sftp setup, lamp >>>> >> > setup, or maybe >>>> >> > even something a little less advanced would be nice to >>>> have. I >>>> >> > have >>>> >> > always been real bad to forget advanced commands in the >>>> past. >>>> >> > A place to >>>> >> > look stuff up like that instead of doing a separate web >>>> search >>>> >> > for >>>> >> > anything I need would be a huge help. Think of it as a >>>> melting >>>> >> > pot for >>>> >> > all the on-line documents advanced users have to search for >>>> >> > everyday. >>>> >> > Maybe it could be totally separate from the Ubuntu-tour. >>>> >> > Something like >>>> >> > Ubuntu-advanced-tour. If you guys don't like the idea of >>>> >> > something like >>>> >> > that, then do I have permission to start something on the >>>> side >>>> >> > for more >>>> >> > advanced users, using some code from Ubuntu-tour ? >>>> >> > >>>> >> > >>>> >> > _______________________________________________ >>>> >> > Mailing list: >>>> >> > https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-tour<https://launchpad.net/%7Eubuntu-tour> >>>> >> > Post to : [email protected] >>>> >> > Unsubscribe : >>>> >> > https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-tour<https://launchpad.net/%7Eubuntu-tour> >>>> >> > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >>>> >> > >>>> >> > >>>> >> > >>>> >> > >>>> >> > -- >>>> >> > Jason Cook >>>> >> > _______________________________________________ >>>> >> > Mailing list: >>>> >> > https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-tour<https://launchpad.net/%7Eubuntu-tour> >>>> >> > Post to : [email protected] >>>> >> > Unsubscribe : >>>> >> > https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-tour<https://launchpad.net/%7Eubuntu-tour> >>>> >> > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >>>> >> >>>> >> >>>> >> >>>> >> _______________________________________________ >>>> >> Mailing list: >>>> >> https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-tour<https://launchpad.net/%7Eubuntu-tour> >>>> >> Post to : [email protected] >>>> >> Unsubscribe : >>>> >> https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-tour<https://launchpad.net/%7Eubuntu-tour> >>>> >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >>>> >> >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > -- >>>> > Jason Cook >>>> > >>>> > _______________________________________________ >>>> > Mailing list: >>>> > https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-tour<https://launchpad.net/%7Eubuntu-tour> >>>> > Post to : [email protected] >>>> > Unsubscribe : >>>> > https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-tour<https://launchpad.net/%7Eubuntu-tour> >>>> > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >>>> > >>>> > >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Met vriendelijke groeten, >>>> Keimpe de Jong >>>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Mailing list: >>> https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-tour<https://launchpad.net/%7Eubuntu-tour> >>> Post to : [email protected] >>> Unsubscribe : >>> https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-tour<https://launchpad.net/%7Eubuntu-tour> >>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-tour >> <https://launchpad.net/%7Eubuntu-tour> >> Post to : [email protected] >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-tour >> <https://launchpad.net/%7Eubuntu-tour> >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: >> https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-tour<https://launchpad.net/%7Eubuntu-tour> >> Post to : [email protected] >> Unsubscribe : >> https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-tour<https://launchpad.net/%7Eubuntu-tour> >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-tour > <https://launchpad.net/%7Eubuntu-tour> > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-tour > <https://launchpad.net/%7Eubuntu-tour> > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: > https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-tour<https://launchpad.net/%7Eubuntu-tour> > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : > https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-tour<https://launchpad.net/%7Eubuntu-tour> > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >
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