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This is Alan Pope with the Introduction Screencast

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for the Ubuntu Month of Screencasts (MoS)

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All the screencasts on the Month of Screencasts can be downloaded for free

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at our website, which is screencasts.ubuntu.com

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This first screencast is really just an introduction to 

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the whole Month of Screencasts project.

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We are not going to talk about Ubuntu,

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we are not going to talk about anything to do with a product.

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This is really just an introduction to the screencasts themselves 

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and really to make sure they play and that you can play them

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and I can upload them properly.

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Now we should say that in all these tutorials as with any online tutorial,

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if there is anything you are unsure of,

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any recommendations that we make that you do not agree with,

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then by all means do not make changes to your system.

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Because whilst we are familiar with Ubuntu, there may be things that 

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you might disagree with and that is fine.

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Do not necessarily take only our advice,

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research whatever it is you are planning to do with your computer

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before you make any changes and of course make sure you have backups.

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Here is a screenshot of the Month of Screencasts page on the screencasts website.

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you will see on the middle of the screen there is an introduction to the whole project,

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on the left there are links where you can download the various sized

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versions of the screencasts in Ogg format and Flash format.

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and on the right hand side there are RSS links that you could put into an RSS reader.

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So that you could be notified when a new video becomes available.

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We make our videos available in multiple sizes,

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so hopefully they should be playable on pretty much any speed connection.

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The largest video we have is (quite large) 1280x720,

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which is TV HD 720p resolution

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and we make them available in Ogg format and in Flash format.

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The oggs should play out of the box on any linux machine,

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the Flash files should play with the appropriate plugin on Linux

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and also on Windows and should play on Mac

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If you get any problems playing the videos do let us know

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via the comments system on the website

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and we will do what we can to help you out.

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If you are running a non-Linux platform, for example if you are running windows,

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then there is a set of codecs you can download from this website,

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all I did was google for Vorbis, Theora, Ogg and Windows

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and this was the first site that came up and it is actually the

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official Windows Direct Show filters that you can

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install on windows to enable you to play Oggs.

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Alternatively you can use the Video LAN player, VLC

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it is a multi-platform video player and it is very very good.

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I highly recommend it and that will play Oggs on any platform as well.

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We often get asked what software we use to make these screencasts

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and I have just listed out the software that we use, the main components we use.

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You may or may not recognise some of these.

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There is actually a page that details exactly how we go about creating these screencasts,

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so if you have any questions about how we make them,

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again feel free to leave comments on the website.

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Now there are a number of products that we could talk about,

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Ubuntu, Kubuntu and Edubuntu amongst all the other derivatives of Ubuntu,

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but we are any going to focus on Ubuntu

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and the simple reason for that is

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we just do not know Kubuntu and Edubuntu well enough to speak with authority about them.

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So if anyone would like screencasts about Kubuntu

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then by all means make some requests and I'm sure we could get some made.

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The same goes for Eubuntu.

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On that note if anyone would like to contribute to the screencasts team

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we could really do with people to contribute screencasts themselves.

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Technical assistance in encoding the videos and any other help with

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how we can make these play well on various platforms, subtitle editors.

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Unfortunately we make all the screencasts in English only,

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so it would be very helpful if we could create subtitles.

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so that they could then be translated.

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So we also need translators so that people in other regions,

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speaking other languages, can understand these screencasts.

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If you want to get in touch with us, you can via our website,

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which is screencasts.ubuntu.com

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and I hope you enjoy the rest of the screencasts.

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Again all of them are freely downloadable from our website,

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which is screencasts.ubuntu.com