ScreencastTeam video tutorials

[johnny.one.eye at gmail.com]

Have you guys ever considered trying to implement the Wordpress Video Solution Framework?: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpresscom-video-server/
It powers http://wordpress.tv and all of the Wordpress.com videos that are uploaded.  If you don't want to use Wordpress, I think the code can be adapted, and it's open-source.  The output is still Flash, but at least it's somewhat pre-built

Alternatively it would be nice if the videos utilized Theora ogv and the <video> tag in the new Firefox, but I'm not sure how feasible that is for you either.  Anyway, I think updated screencasts are a fantastic idea.  It would be great to link to such a resource to help show people how great and easy it is to get started with Ubuntu.  I'd love to contribute a few screencasts if you guys get things going again.  I wish I had more time to dedicate to helping you get set up, but school is incredibly busy for me now.

Cheers,
J


On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Alan Pope <alan at popey.com> wrote:
2009/7/19 Phil Bull <philbull at gmail.com>:
> However, I don't know what's going on with the screencasts team at the
> moment. Does anyone on this list know?
>

That would be me. Currently the state of the screencast team is thus:-

Lots of screencasts made in 2007, some created for the Ubuntu UK
Podcast we published in 2008, nothing new created since then.

The site used to be drupal based, and I'd upload multiple different
versions to the site (hosted by Canonical), however this was
incredibly time consuming and inefficient, so I looked at just
uploading videos once to blip.tv and let them deal with the hosting.
The nasty flash blob that's on the site at the moment is basically the
blip.tv embedded player. The videos do still get watched quite
regularly, so there's certainly a need for them.

More recently I had a discussion with Emma Jane Hogbin about
re-creating the site again in a more up to date drupal setup but this
still has the issue that the videos need to be processed/hosted
somewhere.

As I've done nothing with/for the team in some time, perhaps it's time
for someone else to take it on? I'm happy to hand it over to someone
else, or continue with it if I can get some help with design and
direction. I'm preparing to create a bunch more screencasts but not
sure when they will be ready.

Suggestions welcome.

Al.

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