Windows FOSS on the Live CD -- the OOo2 question

[Carl Karsten]

Henrik Nilsen Omma wrote:
> Carl Karsten wrote:
> 
>> Ok, as promised: 
>> http://dev.personnelware.com/carl/temp/Mar09/a/LiveDapperBoot.avi.torrent
>>
>> 16meg, worth the view. not worth even consedering for final product, 
>> but worth chattering about.
> 
> Thanks, I got that working now. I've put a copy here: 
> http://people.ubuntu.com/~henrik/temp/
> 
> The file is actually surprisingly large for what it shows (mostly 
> black). I wonder if it can be  compressed differently?

Yes.  I used Lives to cut out a bunch of "dead air", but didn't put any effort 
into reducing size.

> 
> Have you tried taking shots of the desktop in action too? That would be 
> quite interesting. 

Tried, but got black and fuz.  my toshiba 4600 video out doesn't get along with 
the capture, and I don't think it is the right way anyway. (see below)

> What video capture system are you using? 
http://www.adstech.com/products/USBAV_701/intro/usb701intro.asp?pid=USBAV701

 >Something that works on Linux?

 From what I can tell, no.


> I looked briefly on the web and saw various things 
> at around $1-200. I'll consider getting something like this myself.

If you do, get something that takes a VGA output, not "TV" - the TV based stuff 
just doesn't have enough res.

I am going to try to boot the CD in a Virtual Machine and see if I can capture that.

^C