The future of bug reports/reviews: screencasts!
Hi, Yesterday former SoC student Balázs Dianiska (snufkin) reported a problem on IRC using a screencast. This is just brilliant. Imagine showing the problem your patch solves, applying the patch, reload and whao! the problem is indeed solved. Much, much faster to review than actually creating the necessary environment (create a user who can create/view pink elephants but not green unicorns, then add some pink elephants, etc). Under Linux, use xvidcap and either host the results if you have the means or use Google video (much better quality than YouTube). Keep 'em coming! Karoly Negyesi
Hi all,
Under Linux, use xvidcap and either host the results if you have the means or use Google video (much better quality than YouTube).
Or what I used was "recordmydesktop", available for gentoo and debian for sure. Produces nice theora (ogg) output. Link: http://recordmydesktop.iovar.org/about.php balazs
Or what I used was "recordmydesktop", available for gentoo and debian for sure. Produces nice theora (ogg) output. Link: http://recordmydesktop.iovar.org/about.php
http://popey.com/Creating_Screencasts . Whilst recording to OGG format is great, there's precious little tools around to re-encode to other formats from OGG as the source. It's also not sensible to try to transcode for a lossy format to another lossy format.
Op woensdag 05 september 2007, schreef Karoly Negyesi:
It's also not sensible to try to transcode for a lossy format to another lossy format.
OGG is a container format. You can therefore make the original in lossless formats, if you wish. And there are many tools around to re-encode to and from Theora. So "lack of tools" is not true either. Bèr -- Drupal, Ruby on Rails and Joomla! development: webschuur.com | Drupal hosting: www.sympal.nl
The lowest barrier to entry may actually be Jing: http://www.jingproject.com/ It handles the capture, the transfer and the hosting. Karoly Negyesi wrote:
Hi,
Yesterday former SoC student Balázs Dianiska (snufkin) reported a problem on IRC using a screencast. This is just brilliant. Imagine showing the problem your patch solves, applying the patch, reload and whao! the problem is indeed solved. Much, much faster to review than actually creating the necessary environment (create a user who can create/view pink elephants but not green unicorns, then add some pink elephants, etc).
Under Linux, use xvidcap and either host the results if you have the means or use Google video (much better quality than YouTube).
Keep 'em coming!
Karoly Negyesi
participants (4)
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Balazs Dianiska -
Bèr Kessels -
Karoly Negyesi -
Robert Douglass