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Author: Dazed_75
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Subject: Re: How to record a screencast
Restarting Firefox fixed it. Sorry for any of your time I wasted.

On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 8:32 PM, Dazed_75 <> wrote:

> I take that back. Suddenly I don't seem to be able to play much of
> anything
>
>
> On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 8:17 PM, Dazed_75 <> wrote:
>
>> 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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>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>>>> 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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>> --
>> Dazed_75 a.k.a. Larry
>>
>> The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain
>> occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive.
>> - Thomas Jefferson
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> --
> Dazed_75 a.k.a. Larry
>
> The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions,
> that I wish it always to be kept alive.
> - Thomas Jefferson
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