Announcing dogtail: a GUI automation and test framework

[Jeff Spaleta]

On 10/7/05, Nicu Buculei <nicu_fedora at nicubunu.ro> wrote:
> Istanbul was just an example, the exact package used does not matter
> that much, the main idea is a format which could be read by free players
> (preferably by the player included in the default install) would just
> make sense to be used.

Yes... ideally...it would be very nice to have. Feel free to suggest
another alternative other than istanbul. Perhaps its simple a matter
of not having the tools available on the system being used to develop
dogtail. Right now... its a hell of a lot easier to get the flash
video creation working than to get video captures to theora working,
the tools for that have been usable for over a year now. The gst
plugin istanbul relies on in rawhide still has some gratuitous
performance problems with frame dropping that make screen
capturing..tedious.
I went through the trouble of packaging istanbul in Extras developer
in the hopes that more people interesting in this sort of video
production beat the crap out of it and start working with the upstream
developers to make the gst video capture more robust.

If you know of a better way to screencapture directly into theora.. or
if you have a procedure by which we can convert the flash video into
theora after-the-fact.. I'm all ears.

-jef"if wishes were fishes"spaleta