<div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_quote">(forwarding this message on Mark's behalf)</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">---</div><div class="gmail_quote">Thanks to everyone for your help and suggestions, and to Christoph for posting the initial request for help. The idea here is to establish two levels /Protocols of screencast ability for the making of video tutorials:</div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">1) A Mac/PC based system using SoaS that would allow us to produce professional level videos with all the bells and whistles.</div><div class="gmail_quote">2) An XO based workflow using Sugar's own Screencast activity</div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">The concept would be to produce a few, high quality exemplars that could be easily reproduced by folks anywhere with a Mac/PC, and to inspire local XO-based tutorials that can be produced by kids and for kids. There are already some great exemplars of that at <a href="http://archive.org">archive.org</a> where elementary school kids have made their own Scratch tutorials in ogg.</div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Like many of you, my test with VB got the green light on the cam, but a black screen, but on VB the audio worked.</div><div class="gmail_quote">On Parallels, we got the still cam working, but no video and no audio.</div>
<div class="gmail_quote">I haven't tried VMware yet.</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">VB would be best cause it is free, and I think the various suggestions that we try an external USB mic and cam, adding them as devices, might be the answer. My one complicating factor might be...could the Rode Podcaster USB mic we use to narrate the tutorials also be used simultaneously in Record to bring in the audio. We are going to test the "USB devices with USB passthrough" idea this weekend, and I will start testing Sugar's Screencast more rigorously. I have had success on a 1.5 at low and medium quality, but the high quality versions have been choking for me. I want to see what quality I can get, and how long the screencast can be, optimally.</div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Thanks for all your help. We are just trying to pioneer a system that will be duplicable and scaleable...and affordable. If we figure it out, that will be the first screencast we make!</div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">MRB</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Mark Roy Battley</div><div class="gmail_quote"><a href="http://www.ntugigroup.org">www.ntugigroup.org</a></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">1-647-219-5669 Canada</div><div class="gmail_quote">(+254) 724 497 894 Kenya</div><div class="gmail_quote">---</div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 8:53 PM, Thomas C Gilliard <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:satellit@bendbroadband.com">satellit@bendbroadband.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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On 03/01/2012 11:22 AM, Gary Martin wrote:<br>
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On 1 Mar 2012, at 15:31, Peter Robinson<<a href="mailto:pbrobinson@gmail.com" target="_blank">pbrobinson@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 2:38 PM, Caryl Bigenho<<a href="mailto:cbigenho@hotmail.com" target="_blank">cbigenho@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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Hi SoaS folks... plus Greg!<br>
<br>
If you do find a way to do this it would be wonderful. But, it will have to<br>
be easy to explain to parents, teachers, and kids. They are our target<br>
audience (right?). I'll forward a copy of this to Greg Dreshler up at UCSB.<br>
He was one of my booth volunteers from SCaLE 10X and is very knowledgable<br>
about how to use Parallels. Maybe he will have some ideas too.<br>
<br>
If you guys can figure this out and show me how, I will write the<br>
documentation to make it easy for our target audience to do.<br>
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I think USB devices with USB passthrough might be the easiest to do on<br>
all various different virt platforms. I believe all of them support<br>
USB passthrough and on the SoaS side we shouldn't need anything<br>
special in particular as it should just see a new USB device.<br>
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Just tested on VirtualBox 4.1.8 for OSX on a MacBookPro i7 in GNOME 3.3.5 with cheese<br>
Defined the USB camera for pass though: Apple Inc.Facetime HD Camera (Built in) (0516)<br>
I got a green light on camera but no image.<br>
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Yes, when I last tested on my Mac (last late year) the camera device was passed through to the VM, but back then Fedora did not recognise the hardware correctly, the Mac hw camera led would light up when in 'use' but otherwise just a black image. Sorry I haven't tested a more recent build.<br>
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Regards,<br>
--Gary<br>
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Peter<br>
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