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I was not able to get your youtube video to play though I normally have no
problems with it.

On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 8:11 PM, Ariel Gold <> wrote:

> Actually it looks like recordmyDesktop requires an X server.
>
> 2010/5/20 Ariel Gold <>
>
> avidemux is a video editor, though I haven't done any editing with it.
>> Floss Manuals has a manual on avidemux, and other video software....
>> http://en.flossmanuals.net/
>>
>> Also, if you are doing any recording on a server without X, note, as the
>> name implies, gtk-recordmydesktop is a frontend for recordmydesktop
>>
>>
>> 2010/5/20 Bryan O'Neal <>
>>
>>> 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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>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> --
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>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Stephen
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