tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447920200692352023.post6027661165140090497..comments2023-10-16T10:35:47.595+02:00Comments on Martin's Chronicles: Making High Quality ScreencastsMartinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18184701134359021954noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447920200692352023.post-29187154294657919802008-09-10T10:30:00.000+02:002008-09-10T10:30:00.000+02:00Nice tutorial.Nice tutorial.Adrianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09372462251191970146noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447920200692352023.post-1474478316378714692008-09-09T08:56:00.000+02:002008-09-09T08:56:00.000+02:00If you are using wondows, DemoCreator would be a e...If you are using wondows, <B>DemoCreator</B> would be a easy tool for you to make wonderful screencasts.Adwardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12772742885903996006noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447920200692352023.post-91984311856446079362008-09-08T03:52:00.000+02:002008-09-08T03:52:00.000+02:00KDE 4's Phonon can use GStreamer, it's not the def...KDE 4's Phonon can use GStreamer, it's not the default though (i.e. if both phonon-backend-xine and phonon-backend-gstreamer are installed, KDE will pick the xine-lib one) and the output device selection isn't really integrated with the rest of Phonon (there's a setting for the "sink" to use, which is the API, e.g. alsasink, pulsesink etc., and the devices Phonon sees are then only the devices supported by that "sink") which means PulseAudio support is hit or miss. And Kaffeine hasn't been ported to KDE 4 and Phonon yet, it's a KDE 3 app using xine-lib directly. Dragon Player uses Phonon, but it has nowhere near the features Kaffeine has, it follows a more minimalistic design approach, almost like a GNOME app.<BR/><BR/>As for "out of the mainstream", I call putting Theora into anything other than an Ogg container like that. ;-) In theory, containers and codecs should be completely orthogonal, but in practice some combinations are rarely used and thus poorly supported.Kevin Koflerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00136078113749660013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447920200692352023.post-43165830474430145792008-09-08T00:12:00.000+02:002008-09-08T00:12:00.000+02:00Not good both for vlc and xine-lib. Gstreamer and ...Not good both for vlc and xine-lib. Gstreamer and mplayer is just fine with those. As for dirac, so far I was able to play it only with gstreamer (and it was really, really slow), but I guess its still new and it will get better audience in the future.<BR/><BR/>I think I'll file a bug against xine-lib, it should be able to handle it fine - it knows matroska (tested with mkv+h264 combo), it knows theora (in ogg), why it does not know the combination?<BR/><BR/>I wonder, can KDE4 use gstreamer as its backend? Lately it gives best results to me along with mplayer in that that it is able to play virtually everything (providing you have all the plugins from fedora and livna installed).<BR/><BR/>Dunno how much in linux, but in general matroska is much more used for video than ogg/ogm, I would not call it "out of the mainstream", though the combination of theora in matroska is not that much used...Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18184701134359021954noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447920200692352023.post-33560923328551065772008-09-07T23:56:00.000+02:002008-09-07T23:56:00.000+02:00VLC can read the mkv format, but doesn't recognise...VLC can read the mkv format, but doesn't recognise the video codec.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447920200692352023.post-40725613179338161842008-09-07T23:27:00.000+02:002008-09-07T23:27:00.000+02:00Kaffeine fails to read these files. :-( It can rea...Kaffeine fails to read these files. :-( It can read Theora, of course, it works fine in a standard .ogg or .ogv file, but it doesn't like the Matroska .mkv. As far as I can tell, xine-lib doesn't support the Ogg formats in non-Ogg containers (and it doesn't currently support Dirac at all - except maybe through ffmpeg, but that doesn't currently support Dirac in Matroska nor Ogg containers).<BR/><BR/>The problem if you use anything out of the mainstream is that apps just can't handle it.Kevin Koflerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00136078113749660013noreply@blogger.com