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

[Yamandu Ploskonka]

Sorry, correction, Record 64 (8.2) has Low, High and Best as options.
Now, on the XO 1 / 802 only Low works, the others are celery-for-soup 
choppy. 

Why do we have those options show up at all?

Yama

Yama Ploskonka wrote:
> 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 <mailto:walter.bender at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Curious. I just created a video on my XO and tried to upload it to
>     dailymotion.com <http://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 <mailto: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 <http://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 <mailto: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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