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Download1 00:00:00,881 --> 00:00:03,426 This is Alan Pope with the Introduction Screencast 2 00:00:03,526 --> 00:00:06,024 for the Ubuntu Month of Screencasts (MoS) 3 00:00:06,615 --> 00:00:09,987 All the screencasts on the Month of Screencasts can be downloaded for free 4 00:00:10,072 --> 00:00:14,970 at our website, which is screencasts.ubuntu.com 5 00:00:17,323 --> 00:00:20,834 This first screencast is really just an introduction to 6 00:00:20,888 --> 00:00:23,662 the whole Month of Screencasts project. 7 00:00:23,762 --> 00:00:25,609 We are not going to talk about Ubuntu, 8 00:00:25,701 --> 00:00:29,365 we are not going to talk about anything to do with a product. 9 00:00:29,465 --> 00:00:32,830 This is really just an introduction to the screencasts themselves 10 00:00:32,914 --> 00:00:36,356 and really to make sure they play and that you can play them 11 00:00:36,448 --> 00:00:39,139 and I can upload them properly. 12 00:00:39,239 --> 00:00:43,845 Now we should say that in all these tutorials as with any online tutorial, 13 00:00:43,953 --> 00:00:46,191 if there is anything you are unsure of, 14 00:00:46,497 --> 00:00:48,981 any recommendations that we make that you do not agree with, 15 00:00:49,058 --> 00:00:51,557 then by all means do not make changes to your system. 16 00:00:51,649 --> 00:00:56,501 Because whilst we are familiar with Ubuntu, there may be things that 17 00:00:56,554 --> 00:00:58,938 you might disagree with and that is fine. 18 00:00:59,046 --> 00:01:01,545 Do not necessarily take only our advice, 19 00:01:01,637 --> 00:01:04,473 research whatever it is you are planning to do with your computer 20 00:01:04,573 --> 00:01:07,861 before you make any changes and of course make sure you have backups. 21 00:01:09,877 --> 00:01:15,342 Here is a screenshot of the Month of Screencasts page on the screencasts website. 22 00:01:15,587 --> 00:01:20,125 you will see on the middle of the screen there is an introduction to the whole project, 23 00:01:20,225 --> 00:01:24,732 on the left there are links where you can download the various sized 24 00:01:24,832 --> 00:01:29,032 versions of the screencasts in Ogg format and Flash format. 25 00:01:29,132 --> 00:01:33,164 and on the right hand side there are RSS links that you could put into an RSS reader. 26 00:01:33,264 --> 00:01:37,610 So that you could be notified when a new video becomes available. 27 00:01:39,994 --> 00:01:43,482 We make our videos available in multiple sizes, 28 00:01:43,574 --> 00:01:48,265 so hopefully they should be playable on pretty much any speed connection. 29 00:01:48,365 --> 00:01:54,067 The largest video we have is (quite large) 1280x720, 30 00:01:54,167 --> 00:01:58,529 which is TV HD 720p resolution 31 00:01:58,881 --> 00:02:02,683 and we make them available in Ogg format and in Flash format. 32 00:02:02,783 --> 00:02:06,432 The oggs should play out of the box on any linux machine, 33 00:02:06,532 --> 00:02:10,694 the Flash files should play with the appropriate plugin on Linux 34 00:02:10,755 --> 00:02:13,315 and also on Windows and should play on Mac 35 00:02:13,959 --> 00:02:17,224 If you get any problems playing the videos do let us know 36 00:02:17,309 --> 00:02:19,723 via the comments system on the website 37 00:02:19,892 --> 00:02:22,222 and we will do what we can to help you out. 38 00:02:22,966 --> 00:02:28,148 If you are running a non-Linux platform, for example if you are running windows, 39 00:02:28,248 --> 00:02:32,302 then there is a set of codecs you can download from this website, 40 00:02:32,402 --> 00:02:37,906 all I did was google for Vorbis, Theora, Ogg and Windows 41 00:02:38,013 --> 00:02:40,734 and this was the first site that came up and it is actually the 42 00:02:40,780 --> 00:02:44,973 official Windows Direct Show filters that you can 43 00:02:45,019 --> 00:02:47,587 install on windows to enable you to play Oggs. 44 00:02:48,269 --> 00:02:51,910 Alternatively you can use the Video LAN player, VLC 45 00:02:51,971 --> 00:02:56,471 it is a multi-platform video player and it is very very good. 46 00:02:56,525 --> 00:03:00,541 I highly recommend it and that will play Oggs on any platform as well. 47 00:03:04,067 --> 00:03:07,478 We often get asked what software we use to make these screencasts 48 00:03:07,578 --> 00:03:12,507 and I have just listed out the software that we use, the main components we use. 49 00:03:12,553 --> 00:03:15,106 You may or may not recognise some of these. 50 00:03:15,174 --> 00:03:20,149 There is actually a page that details exactly how we go about creating these screencasts, 51 00:03:20,249 --> 00:03:22,702 so if you have any questions about how we make them, 52 00:03:22,802 --> 00:03:26,519 again feel free to leave comments on the website. 53 00:03:27,194 --> 00:03:30,413 Now there are a number of products that we could talk about, 54 00:03:30,513 --> 00:03:35,066 Ubuntu, Kubuntu and Edubuntu amongst all the other derivatives of Ubuntu, 55 00:03:35,940 --> 00:03:38,316 but we are any going to focus on Ubuntu 56 00:03:38,400 --> 00:03:39,941 and the simple reason for that is 57 00:03:40,010 --> 00:03:44,655 we just do not know Kubuntu and Edubuntu well enough to speak with authority about them. 58 00:03:45,529 --> 00:03:49,155 So if anyone would like screencasts about Kubuntu 59 00:03:49,385 --> 00:03:52,819 then by all means make some requests and I'm sure we could get some made. 60 00:03:53,486 --> 00:03:55,387 The same goes for Eubuntu. 61 00:03:55,724 --> 00:03:59,587 On that note if anyone would like to contribute to the screencasts team 62 00:03:59,649 --> 00:04:04,470 we could really do with people to contribute screencasts themselves. 63 00:04:05,145 --> 00:04:10,580 Technical assistance in encoding the videos and any other help with 64 00:04:10,618 --> 00:04:15,232 how we can make these play well on various platforms, subtitle editors. 65 00:04:15,340 --> 00:04:18,130 Unfortunately we make all the screencasts in English only, 66 00:04:18,230 --> 00:04:20,529 so it would be very helpful if we could create subtitles. 67 00:04:20,629 --> 00:04:22,806 so that they could then be translated. 68 00:04:22,852 --> 00:04:25,926 So we also need translators so that people in other regions, 69 00:04:26,026 --> 00:04:29,475 speaking other languages, can understand these screencasts. 70 00:04:29,866 --> 00:04:32,748 If you want to get in touch with us, you can via our website, 71 00:04:32,848 --> 00:04:35,032 which is screencasts.ubuntu.com 72 00:04:36,657 --> 00:04:39,555 and I hope you enjoy the rest of the screencasts. 73 00:04:39,655 --> 00:04:43,341 Again all of them are freely downloadable from our website, 74 00:04:43,441 --> 00:04:46,085 which is screencasts.ubuntu.com
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