[GRASS-user] mediawiki: recorded desktop sessions

[Hamish]

Martin wrote:
> well, you are right. Anyway the major drawback of using 3rd
> party video hosts is that we will loose possibility to
> control/backup such video files. If such hosting service
> remains unavailable we will lose all videos, links to the
> video files became broken on our wiki.

I'd expect the likes of youtube to have better uptime, disk
space, & bandwidth than us :)

> Moreover the user will need to create his/her account on
> such video hosting service.

a small cost? does simply having a gmail account allow you to
upload to youtube or picasa*, or is another acc't req'd for that?

[*] then you can have both images and movies in your tutorial, 
imagine expanding Lorenzo's getting started guide with a
few movies in between slides.
  http://grass.bologna.enea.it/tutorial/


It's worth mentioning that some previous GRASS tutorial
screencasts have used flash video format,
  http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/Promotional_material#Video
  http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/Movies#Q:_How_to_create_a_screencast_.28for_video_tutorials_etc.29.3F


I have no big opinion on the matter, but I wonder how Ogv (ogg
theora [+ vorbis]) stacks up against WebM [+ vorbis] for this
sort of thing? I guess you can upload WebM to youtube directly?


Hamish