[ubuntu-uk] Save screencast target file - play offline??

[alan c]

Alan Pope wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-01-01 at 21:25 +0000, Freddie Ruddick wrote:
>> On 01/01/07, alan c <aeclist at candt.waitrose.com> wrote:
>> > How can I save the target file of the screencast such as
>> > http://ubuntuvideo.com/installing_updates_on_ubuntu
>> 
>> Click the google video button (bottom right of the video window),
>> click go to google video, then use the download button of the page
>> that opens.
>> 
>> That particular video is also available, along with (I think!) the
>> rest of Alan's on www.quickones.org, which offers a variety of
>> download choices: <http://quickones.org/Installing_Updates_on_Ubuntu>
>> 
> 
> That's right, just click that last link and you should find a bunch of
> links to various format videos (including OGG).

great, thanks.

later comment - videos work well on machines here except for my demo 
laptop (dell inspiron 1100)

The sound plays fine but kaffeine displays no picture - only a blue 
background. My guess is it is related to the (high) resolution  of the 
video file. Other videos play ok but I notice they are lower 
resolution - for example the bundled Examples folder with the distro 
and also the same  installing_updates_on_ubuntu via google videao etc 
etc are all ok.

There may be a special issue with the dell inspiron 1100 because it 
(uniquely) does not report its video parameters fully to the bios and 
recent (xorg related) live CDs initially display only 680x400 and 
small in centre display. This is fixed by simple edits of the xorg 
config file but I think may suggest some special tweaks elsewhere 
maybe. (?)

-- 
alan cocks
Kubuntu user#10391