[Sugar-devel] Announcing OLPC OS 13.2.7 with Sugar 0.108

[Tony Anderson]

Hi, James

That has been my experience as well. 720p is beyond the capability of 
the XO-1.

The question is whether a frame rate and resolution usable on the XO-1 
is better than nothing.

Tony

On 02/25/2016 11:18 AM, James Cameron wrote:
> Good resolution and frame rate are essential.  Usability problems with
> instructional video will block learning [1].  720p HD is a good
> minimum.  You cannot easily use 720p HD on an XO-1 without degrading
> frame rate.
>
> Where instructional video is a requirement, please contact OLPC with
> your next request for tender.
>
> Reference:
>
> 1.  YouTutorial: A Framework for Assessing Instructional Online Video
>      Morain, Matt; Swarts, Jason.
>      Technical Communication Quarterly (1057-2252)
>      2012-01-01.
>
> On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 08:44:18PM -0500, Adam Holt wrote:
>> Tremendous news, Profound thanks James & the Sugar 0.108 Team!!
>>
>> Aside: i haven't given up (yet) on a wider array of quality learning videos
>> (from Internet-in-a-Box 2.0 etc) becoming playable on XO-1 in 2016 so many
>> years later.  Issues you've well-documented @ [1]http://wiki.laptop.org/go/
>> Release_notes/13.2.7#Video_Playback .  But the truth will announce itself soon
>> enough, as to how far volunteers get resampling key vids in suitable codecs :}
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 5:26 PM, James Cameron <[2]quozl at laptop.org> wrote:
>>
>>      G'day,
>>
>>      We're pleased to announce the release of OLPC OS 13.2.7 for XO-1,
>>      XO-1.5, XO-1.75 and XO-4.
>>
>>      It is Sugar 0.108 on Fedora 18, with a few activities upgraded.
>>
>>      Details of new features, fixes, known issues, and how to download,
>>      install or upgrade can be found in the release notes:
>>
>>              [3]http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_notes/13.2.7
>>
>>      Our thanks to all contributors, testers, upstreams, and those who
>>      have provided feedback of any kind.
>>
>>      Feedback on the release; write to devel@ mailing list, thanks.
>>
>>      Feedback on Sugar 0.108; write to sugar-devel@ list.
>>
>>      Build file names: 32019o0 32019o1 32019o2 32019o4
>>     
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>> References:
>>
>> [1] http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_notes/13.2.7#Video_Playback
>> [2] mailto:quozl at laptop.org
>> [3] http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_notes/13.2.7
>> [4] http://quozl.netrek.org/
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