This is Alan Pope with the Introduction Screencast
for the Ubuntu Month of Screencasts (MoS)
All the screencasts on the Month of Screencasts can be downloaded for free
at our website, which is screencasts.ubuntu.com
This first screencast is really just an introduction to
the whole Month of Screencasts project.
We are not going to talk about Ubuntu,
we are not going to talk about anything to do with a product.
This is really just an introduction to the screencasts themselves
and really to make sure they play and that you can play them
and I can upload them properly.
Now we should say that in all these tutorials as with any online tutorial,
if there is anything you are unsure of,
any recommendations that we make that you do not agree with,
then by all means do not make changes to your system.
Because whilst we are familiar with Ubuntu, there may be things that
you might disagree with and that is fine.
Do not necessarily take only our advice,
research whatever it is you are planning to do with your computer
before you make any changes and of course make sure you have backups.
Here is a screenshot of the Month of Screencasts page on the screencasts website.
you will see on the middle of the screen there is an introduction to the whole project,
on the left there are links where you can download the various sized
versions of the screencasts in Ogg format and Flash format.
and on the right hand side there are RSS links that you could put into an RSS reader.
So that you could be notified when a new video becomes available.
We make our videos available in multiple sizes,
so hopefully they should be playable on pretty much any speed connection.
The largest video we have is (quite large) 1280x720,
which is TV HD 720p resolution
and we make them available in Ogg format and in Flash format.
The oggs should play out of the box on any linux machine,
the Flash files should play with the appropriate plugin on Linux
and also on Windows and should play on Mac
If you get any problems playing the videos do let us know
via the comments system on the website
and we will do what we can to help you out.
If you are running a non-Linux platform, for example if you are running windows,
then there is a set of codecs you can download from this website,
all I did was google for Vorbis, Theora, Ogg and Windows
and this was the first site that came up and it is actually the
official Windows Direct Show filters that you can
install on windows to enable you to play Oggs.
Alternatively you can use the Video LAN player, VLC
it is a multi-platform video player and it is very very good.
I highly recommend it and that will play Oggs on any platform as well.
We often get asked what software we use to make these screencasts
and I have just listed out the software that we use, the main components we use.
You may or may not recognise some of these.
There is actually a page that details exactly how we go about creating these screencasts,
so if you have any questions about how we make them,
again feel free to leave comments on the website.
Now there are a number of products that we could talk about,
Ubuntu, Kubuntu and Edubuntu amongst all the other derivatives of Ubuntu,
but we are any going to focus on Ubuntu
and the simple reason for that is
we just do not know Kubuntu and Edubuntu well enough to speak with authority about them.
So if anyone would like screencasts about Kubuntu
then by all means make some requests and I'm sure we could get some made.
The same goes for Eubuntu.
On that note if anyone would like to contribute to the screencasts team
we could really do with people to contribute screencasts themselves.
Technical assistance in encoding the videos and any other help with
how we can make these play well on various platforms, subtitle editors.
Unfortunately we make all the screencasts in English only,
so it would be very helpful if we could create subtitles.
so that they could then be translated.
So we also need translators so that people in other regions,
speaking other languages, can understand these screencasts.
If you want to get in touch with us, you can via our website,
which is screencasts.ubuntu.com
and I hope you enjoy the rest of the screencasts.
Again all of them are freely downloadable from our website,
which is screencasts.ubuntu.com