Category Archives: Advocacy

Working Around blip.tv Video Conversion Failures

One of the things that’s important to me for Ubuntu Screencasts is that they are accessible to people on non-Ubuntu platforms. That basically translates to Windows and OSX, but could also mean set top boxes, media players etc. One reason I like blip.tv is that they will take the Ogg Theora/Vorbis video I create in RecordMyDesktop [...]
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A Video Editor that Just Works

After my troubles this morning and the subsequent helpful comments from readers, I’m pleased to say I’ve worked around the pausing issue with recordmydesktop. Here’s the command line I used to record a Window hard up against the top left of my display. recordmydesktop --width 1024 --height 768 --full-shots --fps 15 --channels 1 --device hw:2,0 -v_quality [...]
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Screencasting To A Script

Following on from my previous blog post about Getting Back Into Screencasting I’ve put another one together. There’s been some really interesting discussion on Ian Ozsvalds Screencasting Handbook group about the methods people use for screencasting, and I’ve used a couple of ideas here. As part of my experimentation, I made some changes, but a lot [...]
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Trust In Remote Support

Recently in the Ubuntu-UK LoCo team IRC channel we had a new user arrive with a problem on their Ubuntu computer. Nothing new there, it happens every day, but the way the problem was solved was slightly different than the way we usually do it. I’m looking for feedback on this. Emma told us that Ubuntu [...]
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Getting Back Into Screencasting

After a very log hiatus I’m getting back into doing screencasting. It’s been far too long, and the restart has been at least in part been prompted by a bug report and the encouragement of a couple of great women in the Ubuntu community. The first one I’ve done is very simple and just covers the [...]
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