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Screencasts are great to watch, but they're better to share. One issue with screencasts can be their size. A video of a few minutes long of a full-sized desktop with audio can be many megabytes in size. Distributing this volume of data can be tricky and expensive. There are options for making video available for free or low-cost though. Screencasts are great to watch, but they're better to share. One issue with screencasts can be their size. A video of a few minutes long of a full-sized desktop with audio can be many megabytes in size. Distributing this volume of data can be tricky and expensive. There are options for making video available for zero price or low-cost though.
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Google [http://video.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=26562&topic=1488&hl=en_GB accepts] AVI, MPEG, Quicktime, Real and Windows Media files which may contain video encoded with H.264, H.263, MPEG 1/2/4 and MJPEG. Google [[http://video.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=26562&topic=1488&hl=en_GB|accepts]] AVI, MPEG, Quicktime, Real and Windows Media files which may contain video encoded with H.264, H.263, MPEG 1/2/4 and MJPEG. Although not stated in their documentation, Ogg-Theora and some other video formats can also be uploaded by changing the file extension to .avi and then uploading.
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 * If individual videos are less than 100MB, tehn upload via [http://video.google.com/videouploadform?utm_campaign=gv-ww-hdr&utm_source=EM&utm_medium=link browser upload tool].
 * If larger than 100MB then [https://www.google.com/video/upload/UploadInfo?hl=en-GB download desktop uploader].		  * If individual videos are less than 100MB, tehn upload via [[http://video.google.com/videouploadform?utm_campaign=gv-ww-hdr&utm_source=EM&utm_medium=link|browser upload tool]].
 * If larger than 100MB then [[https://www.google.com/video/upload/UploadInfo?hl=en-GB|download desktop uploader]].
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 * [https://www.libsyn.com/signup.php Sign up] to libsyn.  * [[https://www.libsyn.com/signup.php|Sign up]] to libsyn.

Distribution

Screencasts are great to watch, but they're better to share. One issue with screencasts can be their size. A video of a few minutes long of a full-sized desktop with audio can be many megabytes in size. Distributing this volume of data can be tricky and expensive. There are options for making video available for zero price or low-cost though.

Upload to google video

Google accepts AVI, MPEG, Quicktime, Real and Windows Media files which may contain video encoded with H.264, H.263, MPEG 1/2/4 and MJPEG. Although not stated in their documentation, Ogg-Theora and some other video formats can also be uploaded by changing the file extension to .avi and then uploading.

Upload to archive.org

  • Sign up
  • Specify unique object name
  • Upload via ftp
  • Specify titles and derived formats
  • "Check out" to modify
  • "Check in" when finished

Upload to youtube

  • ENOTWRITTENYET

Upload to own webspace

  • ENOTWRITTENYET

Upload to libsyn

Burn to CD/DVD

The devede package can be used to put together a set of videos onto a DVD.

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