Screencasts - Cheese

[Clint Savage]

Hi all,

So I took a couple hours last night/this morning to create a screen cast of
cheese and its usage.  I think its pretty good.

http://herlo.fedorapeople.org/screencasts/cheese-final.ogg (9.4MB)
~4.75minutes

The only issue I saw with istanbul, was that when I'd sometimes launch an
application (cheese, or epiphany to show the cheese website) the audio would
get garbled a little or a lot during the presentation.  I am not sure if
this is really a bug, or some sort of config error on my part.

Cheers,

Clint

[Art Wildman]

Clint Savage wrote:
>  Hi all,
>
>  So I took a couple hours last night/this morning to create a screen 
>  cast of cheese and its usage.  I think its pretty good.
>
>  http://herlo.fedorapeople.org/screencasts/cheese-final.ogg (9.4MB) 
>  ~4.75minutes
>
>  The only issue I saw with istanbul, was that when I'd sometimes launch 
>  an application (cheese, or epiphany to show the cheese website) the 
>  audio would get garbled a little or a lot during the presentation.  I 
>  am not sure if this is really a bug, or some sort of config error on 
>  my part.
>  
Very Cool & well done, though I thought you should raise your webcam to 
look down on you some if possible. The audio processing is likely done 
via shared memory/cpu on the motherboard, so when you launch other apps 
it affects the encoding process (top). If there were dedicated 
audio/video processing hardware or you ran istanbul with a lower 'nice' 
priority and the other apps with a higher 'nice' value. This may not 
work for I/O bound processes, but it's worth a try. You may have to 
create some custom launcher scripts to limit any interference when 
running larger apps like a browser. More on nice here - 
http://www.linux.com/articles/58638 ...Also a light weight desktop like 
XFce.org may help, when doing demos. If it's I/O bound, writing the 
output.ogg to a different drive using a separate controller/channel may 
help. - Cheers, Art