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OSVids Shows Video Clips of Linux in Action

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the glass-bottom-web-site dept.

Ant writes "NewsForge (Also owned by VA) shares a new Web site launched last week called OSvids.com, that shows video clips of Linux distributions in action."

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  1. Re:Diggstyle by antdude · · Score: 3, Informative

    Actually, mine was even shorter as "NewsForge shares a new Web site, OSvids.com, that shows video clips of various Linux distributions in action." on my Web site. I couldn't think of anything else to add. Basically, it is K.I.S.S.

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    Ant(Dude) @ Quality Foraged Links (AQFL.net) & The Ant Farm (antfarm.ma.cx / antfarm.home.dhs.org).
  2. Not for linux! by Beuno · · Score: 3, Informative

    "The Camtasia Studio video content presented here requires JavaScript to be enabled and the latest version of the Macromedia Flash Player. If you are you using a browser with JavaScript disabled please enable it now. Otherwise, please update your version of the free Flash Player by downloading here."

    Seems it only wirks for windows folks with the latest flash...
    why would they do a site like this and leave most linux users out of it??

  3. Re:OT: What do they use to creat these videos by Plug · · Score: 5, Informative
    Camtasia Studio.

    Originally, Buys says, the videos were encoded in QuickTime H.264, but "thanks to the feedback form [on the site] I quickly learned that this was far from optimal." Flash video seemed a good choice, except the software he was using to encode the video produced Flash that didn't work in Linux. "I received emails asking for Ogg-Theora videos, so I converted all the original QuickTime videos." Now, he installs the distribution of choice in Parallels Workstation on Windows and captures the virtual machine in proprietary Camtasia. "I've been looking for an open source replacement, but I have not found anything that provides the same level of functionality," Buys says. After the Camtasia capture, he exports the video first as Flash and then as a .mov file. "[I] convert the .mov to Ogg-Theora with ffmpeg2theora, then upload all the files to the server."