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Author: Bryan O'Neal
Date:  
To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: How to record a screencast
Can you edit the video with avidemux? Because I would, by nature of the
beast, be working on more then one machine and would need to cut and past
sections of video into each other for a clear presentation.

On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 6:25 PM, Ariel Gold <> wrote:

> Thought I'd start a new thread since Bryan asked about screencasting...
>
> gtk-recordmydesktop worked the best of all the tools i tried.
>
> You might be able to record sound and audio at once, but that didn't work
> on my aging laptop. I found that recording audio and video actually worked
> well as a workflow, aging laptop aside, because you can focus on actually
> doing what your're doing on the screen, and then when you're playing it
> back, you can sit back and tell people what you are doing.
>
> So it takes a few steps.
>
> First, record your screen with gtk-recordmydesktop. That's straightforward.
>
>
> Then play it back and record an audio track. I used gnome-sound-recorder.
> Then to put the two togetheri I used avidemux.
>
> After you open your video with avidemux go to the "Audio -> Main Track" and
> select the filetype you want to add (ie. external mp2/3, wav). Then select
> the sound file and it should work. Maybe there's a quicker way to add the
> audio track from the command line?
>
> gtk-recordmydesktop outputs an ogv file, which avidemux won't open. so I
> converted using ffmpeg -i filename.ogv filename.avi. Then you can make the
> final file a flv or whatever...
>
> Here's what I ended up with:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hP4kOEF8kcc
>
> Look forward to watching some screencasts on things like load-balancing!
>
> -Ari
>
> 2010/5/20 Bryan O'Neal <>
>
>> If some one finds me a F/OSS desktop recorder and a way to edit and drop
>> sound on it I will do video :)
>>
>>
>> On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 5:09 PM, keith smith <>wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I think video is the way to go if you are so inclined.
>>>
>>> Thanks for your help!
>>>
>>> ------------------------
>>> Keith Smith
>>>
>>> --- On *Thu, 5/20/10, Bryan O'Neal
>>> <>* wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> From: Bryan O'Neal <>
>>>
>>> Subject: Re: Off site automated backups
>>> To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <>
>>> Date: Thursday, May 20, 2010, 5:05 PM
>>>
>>>
>>> Use RSnapshot.
>>>
>>> It is funny you are going down each of my presentations (ASULUG, PLUG,
>>> ABLEConf) for the last year in reverse order. If only you had one about
>>> VPN's in there is would have hit all four! :)
>>>
>>> Makes me think I really should put that stuff on my blog at some point ;)
>>>
>>> On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 4:51 PM, keith smith <<http://mc/compose?to=klsmith2020@yahoo.com>
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> I'm already rsyncing to a backup server. The short coming someone
>>>> pointed out would be if a table was dropped by accident or by a successful
>>>> hacker then the rsync would replicate the changes to the backup server,
>>>> leaving me with a real problem. So what I want to do is dump the data, tar
>>>> it and store it off site.
>>>>
>>>> I can write a script to ftp the tarball, however I was wondering if
>>>> there was a service that will just ftp in and copy what is there. That
>>>> would be the simplest. Of course it would have to be SFTP.
>>>>
>>>> ------------------------
>>>> Keith Smith
>>>>
>>>> --- On *Thu, 5/20/10, Eric Cope <<http://mc/compose?to=eric.cope@gmail.com>
>>>> >* wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> From: Eric Cope <<http://mc/compose?to=eric.cope@gmail.com>
>>>> >
>>>> Subject: Re: Off site automated backups
>>>> To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <<http://mc/compose?to=plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
>>>> >
>>>> Date: Thursday, May 20, 2010, 4:37 PM
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> is FTP necessary or can you rsync them?
>>>> Eric
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 4:29 PM, Stephen <<http://mc/compose?to=cryptworks@gmail.com>
>>>> > wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> in many many ways really.
>>>>>
>>>>> the simplest "dirt" thing that comes to mind is a cronjob/backup script
>>>>> useing tar with compression the files you want to save then and ftp command
>>>>> to push the newly created file.
>>>>>
>>>>> I know there are tools that can automate this im sure.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 4:20 PM, keith smith <<http://mc/compose?to=klsmith2020@yahoo.com>
>>>>> > wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Man I've got 3 threads going at once. Thanks for all your help.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I want to do some automated backups and I've got this picture in my
>>>>>> head of a service that can be configured to upload files from a specified
>>>>>> folder by configuring it to FTP into my server.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is that possible?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks in advance!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ------------------------
>>>>>> Keith Smith
>>>>>>
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>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from
>>>>> rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button.
>>>>>
>>>>> Stephen
>>>>>
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