[Sugar-devel] Community XO software builds

[Sean DALY]

Hi Tony

not sure if this is helpful, but the Python script youtube-dl (
http://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/) is very useful for downloading vids from
YouTube (curent/playlist/batch), and offers options such as --age-limit,
--max-filesize, --rate-limit, --max-quality, and in particular --format
worstvideo, which could eliminate a subsequent transcoding step by
downloading the minimal quality available.

Sean


On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 8:41 AM, Tony Anderson <tony_anderson at usa.net> wrote:

> It would be helpful to have more specifics.
>
> The problem with videos on the XO-1 is the speed of the processor and the
> bit-rate of the videos. As with all Linux distributions, the codecs are
> available for installation by the user. The process for doing this for the
> XO has been documented many times on these lists. Installation of the
> codecs does not require a local repository or an os-builder. It can be done
> with a simple bash script (and the necessary files).
>
> The only solution I can see is to reprocess videos to reduce the bit-rate.
> It would be valuable if someone would experiment with videos from YouTube
> to determine a realistic processing capability for the XO (should differ by
> model), and to publish the conversion parameters to produce videos within
> those limits (e.g for ffmpeg).
>
> Naturally, this solution does not work for casual browsing of YouTube.
> However, I believe our primary goal to provide better educational
> opporunities on the other side of the digital divide - where this routine
> access to the internet is not available.  This means the deployment has a
> fixed set of available videos which could be reprocessed to play smoothly.
>
> I am not aware of any reported problems with Browse, which as the gateway
> to the schoolserver is the most-used activity in the deployments which I
> support. Naturally, the users at these deployments do not have experience
> with the internet or with other browsers. I can't imagine anyone at these
> deployments being aware of the switch to Webkit, for example. They accept
> that the home page consists of a set of non-working links to the internet
> and that the only relevant one for them is the 'local schoolserver'. (an
> obvious challenge for web confusion is to design a more interesting and
> useful page).
>
> OLE Nepal continues to use Firefox for E-Paath based on the inability of
> Browse with Gnash to provide adequate support for Flash activities. The
> Webkit version of Browse supports the E-Paath activities but there is no
> compelling advantage to change from Firefox. So, the deployments which are
> unhappy with Browse could install Firefox.
>
> Tony
>
>
> On 05/07/2015 05:22 AM, sugar-devel-request at lists.sugarlabs.org wrote:
>
>> They all seem to want a better browser and better codec support to
>> >view various+sundry videos, within Sugar ideally, but if that's not
>> >possible then within Gnome.  One group per week asks me for the
>> >above, above all else (often more than one deployment/group per
>> >week).
>>
>
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