[GRASS-user] mediawiki: recorded desktop sessions

[Aren Cambre]

Youtube makes a ton of sense. Why reinvent the wheel? Just let Youtube take
care of it for you, and embed Youtube videos on appropriate Mediawiki pages.

Aren

On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 7:12 PM, Hamish <hamish_b at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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
>
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