Fedora review

[Jeff Spaleta]

On 7/20/05, Karsten Wade <kwade at redhat.com> wrote:
> If you want to rough out and write up the basic HOWTO for this, how
> about using the Wiki?  We can take that and DocBookify it down the road,
> but having it be a living document that is not hidden in CVS would be
> good.

yeah i can do that.  The big issue right now is dropped frames because
the cpu can't keep up with the requested image grabbing rate in some
situations. I'm hoping to come up with a standard prescription with
regard to desktop resolution, framerate, encoded image size for all
videos being produced. This will imply a minimum cpu requirement to
ensure no frame-drops using what we have available for
gstreamer-plugins right now in rawhide.  I need to come up with a
simple test for frame-dropping that aspiring video-makers can run
quickly to see if their hardware is keeping up for the "standard"
video configuration.  The ximagesrc gst element should improve over
time so some of the issues here with regard to frame dropping should
evaporate as part of rawhide churn towards fc5.

I think long term you'll want to standardize on a low resolution
desktop anyways so that you can encode to a reasonably sized image
without loss of detail. 640x480 might be too small.. but 800x600 might
be a reasonable desktop resolution to use when making task videos.

-jef