Screencast Video Accounts and Testing

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

On Feb 21, 2007, at 9:35 PM, Alan Pope wrote:
>
> On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 11:48:58AM -0800, Ubuntu Clips wrote:
> ...
>> 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?

I'd be happy to test them on OS X.

> 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.
> ...

<http://diveintomark.org/archives/2006/08/30/ipod-video-howto> may be 
relevant.

Cheers
-- 
Matthew Paul Thomas
http://mpt.net.nz/