Screencast Video Accounts and Testing

[Alan Pope]

On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 11:48:58AM -0800, Ubuntu Clips wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Alan, thanks for the meeting notes and I hope that you're feeling a bit
> better.
> 

Thanks, hopefully the next one wont be quite so rushed, sorry about that, it's not my normal 
behaviour! :)

> A couple of additional issues that come to my mind:
> 
> Google Video and YouTube accounts for the screencasts. It seems to me that
> it would be good to have one account in Google Video and YouTube for all of
> the screencast team contributions so that users can find them and watch them
> in one channel. I've registered some accounts that I thought might be useful
> for us: ubuntu.screencast, ubuntu.screencasts, etc. If we agree to go this
> route we can use these, please let me know and I can pass along the
> usernames/passwords.
> 

A good idea. At the moment I have uploaded mine using my own gmail account. I also used this for 
uploading my local LUG talk videos, so having one ID for uploading would be useful, definately.

> Screencast testing. My experience with video conversion for Windows and OSX
> is that the process can be a little finicky and lead to mixed results. For
> example, although the .avi and .mov files may play under Ubuntu with the
> right codecs installed, they may nonetheless *not* play in Windows Media
> Player or Quicktime. Given that contributions will be produced using various
> tools, it would be worthwhile to test all submissions on Windows and OSX to
> ensure compatibility. Does it make sense for us to have a testing (sub)team,
> which would include members that have some sort of access to either Windows
> and/or OSX?
> 

Yes, in making videos for our LUG we had to do a fair amount of work to find the right combination 
of codec, bitrate and enclosure to make sure they play (more or less) out of the box on each 
platform - or at least with as little fuss as possible.

If you have any recipies you could share with us, then a page on the wiki would be great. 

Cheers,
Al.