Screen cast: upgrading to OOov3
Kindasorta scared by the command line instructions that André gave earlier this week to upgrade OOo to version 3? No worries, mate! I created a screen cast (link goes to an OGG movie) based on the excellent article How to install OpenOffice.org 3.0 on Ubuntu 8.10. If you want to run both version 2.4 and 3.0, use Test Drive OpenOffice 3 Beta instead.
Technical notes on the screen cast: I'm still having some problems with the OGG -> whatever conversion. The OGG is great locally, but the online conversion tools output the whole video minus 40 seconds of audio. I have this problem when I do the conversion locally with the following:
$ mencoder upgradingooo3.ogg -o upgradingooo3.avi -oac mp3lame -ovc lavc
I think the problem is still that I was recording at 15 frames per second but Kdenlive thinks it's 25 frames per second (the video plays faster than expected and ends sooner). This cannot be edited within Kdenlive.
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in this screencast they show how to work with kdenlive with 15fps: http://vimeo.com/2234149
I think the problem here is that from memory it's the KDE3 version of Kdenlive (0.5/0.6). Version 0.7 (which is in the Vimeo vid) is nearly a complete rewrite using the KDE 4 libs and is having bugs closed against it at a furious rate.
If you're not using Kdenlive 0.7 yet, it's now available in the debian repos at debian-multimedia.org. (There are repo's for other distro's too) If you are, file a bug at http://kdenlive.org/mantis .I can't guarantee anything, but at the current rate of bug fixing I suspect it'll be fixed in no time at all. :)
Hi,
YouTube allowed me to upload an ogg file and it converted to a hosted YouTube video just fine. I was stuck in the same boat of how do I get from ogg file to a video people can see on the net. I would have preferred a flash video hosted on my own site but just used YouTube to get it up on my blog quickly. So I wait to see what answers you get for the best way to convert a screencast to a video everyone can see but still by using Ubuntu and opensource tools to create it. :)
-Pete
You shouldn't use the ".ogg" extension for video any more, use ".ogv" for that (also see this page on the Xiph wiki).