Re: Fedora review

[Greg DeKoenigsberg <gdk redhat com>]

On Tue, 19 Jul 2005, Jeff Spaleta wrote:

> On 7/19/05, Greg DeKoenigsberg <gdk redhat com> wrote:
> > This is a good idea.  Potentially resource-intensive, and complicated, to
> > do it right.
> 
> Isn't everything?  And who says we have to do it perfectly right the
> first time?  Doing audio or text overlay or any editting at all is
> going to complicate things sure... but maybe we don't "need" that to
> make a positive impact compared to where we are now. Are rough theora
> video captures of desktop tasks better than nothing? Are rough video
> captures "good enough"? 

In the particular case of *video*, I think the answer is "it depends."  
Because bad video can, in fact, be worse than no video (cf. "FUDCon1").

Note: I'm not saying that we couldn't or shouldn't try it.  Does anyone 
within the sound of our voices have the chops for this?

--g

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