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squeaky tales

I've just posted the first two screencast tutorials on Squeak Etoys. Originally, the plan was for us to be in St John right now, prepping for our three-day Etoys workshop at Caneel Bay. Since the funding didn't materialize, I'm making these short movies instead, hoping they're enough for Bill & Mary to struggle through on their own.

The first movie discusses how to install Squeak Etoys and the latest OLPC Etoys image on your computer (particularly if you own a Mac). The next shows Etoys in action for about fifteen minutes.

My next screencast will be on Tuesday. Let me know if you were able to view these movies. I used two different approaches to encoding the video, so I'm interested to see how others fare on different systems.




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The link to the videos is broken at the moment :)

Checkout my test screencast of Sugar desktop. It's up at my blog, the direct link to the video is http://www.archive.org/details/ScreecastOfBetaVersionOfSugarDesktopOnAXoLaptop

Archive.org tried to encode it to .flv automatically, but seemed to fail.
Anyway, i went with ogg vorbis, and chose a very low quality, and very low frame-rate, to see if it was smooth seeing on a XO. It is, so I'm next going to increase the quality/fps until I find the perfect balance.
Oh, and I used recordmydesktop software (for linux, could run in MacOSX since it's unix, but I'm not sure/tested)
Cheers

posted by Eduardo H Silva at October 6, 2007 02:30 AM