[IAEP] youtube upload was Re: share videos from XO?

[Yama Ploskonka]

OK guys.  The mystery is still on, but the whatever was not working is
working now.

Today I spent way too much time loading 6 different builds in as many XOs
and testing each one as to
1) capture a video using Record
2) upload to youtube

The usability of Sugar/XO was atrocious.

I mean, I am a mean old dog, but it took me forever to get things running.
Forget it for people who do not have the background or tenacity, or worse,
if they have al life.

That said, the fruits of my labors are at
http://www.youtube.com/user/yamaplos

bottom line, I was able to upload to Youtube from builds 656, 703, 711, 767
(both GG and 'plain'), and 802.  My 708 usb didn't run, so that one didn't
make it.

the "fresh" 656 vanilla was the winner in terms of ease to get it done.  I
loaded 656 also on a machine that had an "invalid system date", and that had
peculiar quirks.

the 711 was the worst, neither offering to update or having activities
pre-loaded.

Loading activities through "software update" was painful ('plain' 767 and
802), and had to be done in stages, for Record was not available as a
software update.  Luckily Browse was, so I loaded that one (slowwwwww) and
then using Browse went to the Activities page and got Record from there.
Record 8.2/64 gives options for Hi, Med and Low res.  "Hi" was very
fragmented.  Maybe not enough light?  I'll try out it further before I call
it a victim to featuritis.  Or is this the first example of features that
work on the 1.5 but don't in the XO 1?  that would be a crying shame, as any
kind of feature creep is.

oh well

Yama

I had assumed for a while that my difficulties uploading were originally due
to me being in Gallaudet, maybe a filter, so it was refreshing to find out
when Walter tried that it wasn't that.  Maybe some Youtube / Dailymotion
simultaneous issue?
Maybe a former release of Record?
who knows....



On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>wrote:

> Curious. I just created a video on my XO and tried to upload it to
> dailymotion.com. Dailymotion complained that the file type was not
> supported. I copied the file onto a USB key and then uploaded it from
> a firefox browser on Ubuntu. It load without any complaints.
>
> I'll dig a bit deeper. But meanwhile, we know that the problem is not .ogv.
>
> -walter
>
> On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Yamandu Ploskonka <yamaplos at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > OK, how do you or anybody do it?
> >
> > an XO-recorded video
> >
> > How to share it?
> >
> > Can it be seen on any other (non XO) platform?
> >
> > thanks
> >
> > Walter: Dailymotion gives error at every sort of attempt, whether from
> the
> > XO or uploading the file that I emailed from the XO to a Ubuntu box
> >
> > SJ already explained to me yesterday how the "cow video" is mostly
> vaporware
> > (he didn't call it that, of course, but explained how it required
> completely
> > out of the ordinary hacking skills).
> >
> > Yama
> >
> >
> > Walter Bender wrote:
> >>
> >> daliymotion.com is Sugar/OLPC friendly in that it accepts OGG.
> >>
> >> -walter
> >>
> >> On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Yamandu Ploskonka<yamaplos at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>> I've wasted too much time today already in trying to share
> XO-originated
> >>> videos.
> >>>  This is a major issue for deaf people, and as you know we're at
> >>> Gallaudet
> >>> (Washington DC university for the deaf) trying to do Good Things
> >>> http://en.flossmanuals.net/bin/edit/ClassActs
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Anyway, it id work in November 2008 to upload to youtube directly from
> >>> the
> >>> XO
> >>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgy1GQDjbL8
> >>>
> >>> but that didn't work now, and neither did it work to email to another
> XO
> >>> through Google mail an attachment with the video, that I attached here.
> >>>  I
> >>> later added the .ogv hoping that would help to open under ubuntu on a
> >>> desktop, no success.
> >>>
> >>> I was able to open it again in the originating XO, but that was it.
> >>>
> >>> At no time did the sound work, either.
> >>>
> >>> Yama
> >>>
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> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Walter Bender
> Sugar Labs
> http://www.sugarlabs.org
>
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