New Screencast: Installing Fedora 8 Linux (in VMware)
This 9m:27s screencast shows you an installation of Fedora 8 Linux as guest system inside a VMware virtual machine. This includes the demonstration of the installation and setup of the VMware tools package in the installed system.
I used Techsmith’s Camtasia for recording the screencast. There was some difficulty, but in their user-to-user support forums some of their engineers keep a watch - and helped me out by spending a few hours on my problem and giving me an easy to use workaround for it. Very nice, no one at Adobe would do this for Captivate. Still, something as simple as a screencast can be a major headache. I was unable to include the audio in the screencast Flash itself, because that produced lots of strange (audible) audio errors. I also couldn’t save it as “video” (.avi or .flv) since this either requires the user to have the Techsmith codec installed, or I’d have to use a video codec designed for “normal” video and not lossless screen capture - with horrible consequences for quality (try watching screencasts on Youtube). Besides, the Flash format is even better than the best screencast-optimized codec (so far?), the resulting file is much smaller than the video file.
So now I load the loader, which loads the screencast Flash .swf file, and only then lets you start the screencast. I would have preferred to let you (the user) start right away, after all, Flash is a streaming format and what better content is their to stream then a completely linear screencast? But I decided to program it to wait until all is loaded - sorry. That’s because I already stream the audio, which as I said I could not include in the screencast file, and I don’t want to have TWO streams (screencast video and the audio) in parallel, both taking up bandwidth and maybe not in sync… So users just have to wait for the 12.8MB to load. Could be worse.
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