[group-organizers] How to suggest videos for pyvideo.org

[Greg Wilson]

Hi Sheila; thanks for your mail.  +1 to indexing events vs. one-offs, 
and to YouTube hosting.  We still haven't found a decent tool for 
recording terminal sessions - I really want something that records text 
*as text* (better for accessibility, better for rescaling, smaller 
payload), but (a) nothing I've found does what I want, and (b) it 
obviously doesn't integrate with classic pixel-stream video, so I'll be 
happy with whatever's easiest to produce.

Cheers,
Greg

On 2015-07-30 4:31 PM, sheila miguez wrote:
> I've talked this over with Will (I've cc-d him so he can pipe up if I 
> have it wrong) before because I was wondering about having a category 
> for Software Carpentry videos. The consensus we reached was to index 
> events versus one-off videos. If you or anyone have a corner case that 
> you think might fit, I'd recommend opening an issue in pyvideo/pyvideo.
>
> Now on to the next questions.
>
> For hosting, right now I'd say to host on YouTube and also upload the 
> file(s) to a bucket on the Internet Archive. I have $reasons I can 
> tl;dr if anyone is curious.
>
> For screen capture and audio,
>
> I'm going to cc Carl because he knows more about the hardware method 
> than I do. I'm also cc-ing Greg because he has thought about this a 
> great deal.
>
> Can we fip this list to public so that I can link to posts to people 
> who aren't subscribed? I could link this one to the Software Carpentry 
> list and ask if they have more recommendations.
>
> For software, I don't have experience with that, but on the Software 
> Carpentry mailing list there was a post about this recently, 
> <http://lists.software-carpentry.org/pipermail/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org/2015-June/003148.html> 
> and as of that post, Camstasia is recommended. I have no experience 
> with it.
>
> For stuff without sound, I am obsessed with finding tools for 
> excellently recording terminals, I don't have a favorite and I haven't 
> experimented a whole lot.  I recently discovered mkcast, 
> <http://lists.software-carpentry.org/pipermail/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org/2015-July/003200.html> 
> which is neat because it overlays characters you type. That's nice for 
> teaching because it shows invisible characters.
>
> on a tangent, for live casting, I've used ttycast before, which was 
> kickass because it gave a webpage where people could follow along and 
> copy-paste text. but better would be something that allows live 
> casting which displays an overlay of the keys that are being pressed.
>
> For format choice
>
> From my point of view,
>
> 1. Anything that you can upload to youtube so that I can embed it in 
> pyvideo.
> 2. Anything that is a FLOSS friendly format that you can upload to 
> archive.org <http://archive.org> or wikimedia commons so that I can 
> provide a link to a downloadable file that anyone can use.
>
> A nice feature of archive.org <http://archive.org> is that you can 
> upload something and it will transcode the heck out of things and 
> you'll end up with all kinds of formats. You might want to do the 
> transcoding yourself in order to get the best results, ask Carl about 
> that because he has a lot of experience transcoding things and picking 
> formats and picking the best settings.
>
> On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 10:04 AM, Brian Ray <brianhray at gmail.com 
> <mailto:brianhray at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Sheila:
>
>     Outside of conferences, is it possible to submit videos one
>     records of their own desktop? For example, say I want to record
>     myself going through a tutorial with just screenshare and audio.
>     How does this work? Will PyVideo host? What software and format do
>     I need to use?
>
>
>     On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 10:49 AM, sheila miguez <shekay at pobox.com
>     <mailto:shekay at pobox.com>> wrote:
>
>         Hi all,
>
>         I finally wrote a wiki page about how to suggest videos for
>         pyvideo.org <http://pyvideo.org>.
>
>         <https://github.com/pyvideo/pyvideo/wiki/Suggesting-videos-for-the-site>
>
>         This goes in a little bit of detail about the type of
>         information we'd like
>         about videos.
>
>         cheers!
>
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