One thing that came up in a past screencast team meeting was that people on low speed connection links would prefer to be able to have a lower bandwidth version to download. In addition we found that the high resolution videos (1024x768 at the time) would crash some peoples media players. I _think_ this was limited to people running Ubuntu on laptops with the Intel video chipset, using the i810 driver. This amounts to a surprisingly high number of people. So it was decided that we'd have low res versions to cater for these people.
I suggest we might want to look at the stats for which videos are popular - both downloaded directly from the site, and also via the podcast feeds and maybe drop the less popular ones if space becomes an issue.
I'll bring that up at the next Screencast Team Meeting. Thanks for the suggestion.
A good point.
One thing that came up in a past screencast team meeting was that people on low speed connection links would prefer to be able to have a lower bandwidth version to download. In addition we found that the high resolution videos (1024x768 at the time) would crash some peoples media players. I _think_ this was limited to people running Ubuntu on laptops with the Intel video chipset, using the i810 driver. This amounts to a surprisingly high number of people. So it was decided that we'd have low res versions to cater for these people.
I suggest we might want to look at the stats for which videos are popular - both downloaded directly from the site, and also via the podcast feeds and maybe drop the less popular ones if space becomes an issue.
I'll bring that up at the next Screencast Team Meeting. Thanks for the suggestion.