On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 11:06 AM, Alan Pope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 10:32 +0100, Eddie Armstrong wrote: >> Alan Pope wrote: >> > I'm currently working on something like this, but not specifically for >> > screencasts, but for any kind of video. It could of course be used for >> > screencasts. >> > >> > >> Is it the kind of thing that can be used for instant support the way >> Jing can? > > Yes. Although at the moment it has a moderator system which means videos > aren't live until a moderator checks and accepts them. Suggestions for > alternative methods welcome. > >> (I'm not promoting this product it just sounds lika a Linux version >> would be very useful idea for Ubuntu support) > > Agreed. > >> It would be nice if rmd also saved as something more than ogg - a >> nuisance having to convert it if needed afterwards. > > The site I am working on does the video conversion for you. You just > upload an ogg/avi/whatever and it gets converted (at the moment) to > a .flv video which plays in a browser flash based plugin (yes yes, I > know flash is evil). An alternative might be the java based ogg player, > but I've not looked into that yet. >
Ogg embedded directly in HTML works fine in Ubuntu for me (out of the box, meaning no Java install required). Example: http://matthewwild.co.uk/ogg.html Matthew. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/