Re: screencasts on Lua Wiki?

[Philippe Lhoste <PhiLho@...>]

On 15/07/2010 13:37, Patrick wrote:
> I enjoyed learning PHP through screencasts. Sometimes it's good to read a book and
> sometimes it's good to sit and stare.

Personal opinion: I never liked screencasts! I tried again recently, and I was quickly 
bored to see the cursor moving slowly, hesitating, etc. And I am even more perplex for 
this used for a programming language (makes more sense for a GUI, for example...).
Also it is harder to find a specific topic, go ahead (when streaming is slow), etc. No 
search, no printing...

Now, I am not a native English speaker and while I read English quite fast, I have trouble 
understanding spoken explanations, so it doesn't help either...

Now, apparently such tutorials are popular, so I am probably more an exception than the 
norm... So go ahead, as long as such tutorial is a complement, not a replacement of 
textual tutorials.

> It looks like the wiki is written PERL. I am just wondering if it can handle the loads of
> this media and if it is permissible or possible to upload this sort of thing. If so could
> someone edit the first page at some point to offer links to screencasts? I don't think the
> menu as-is would be suitable.

Having video might be quite costly: both in term of storage, and in terms of convenience: 
hard to set up a streaming server, and not practical to have people to download large 
files to view them.

Suggestion: make your videos, post them on a high quality video server (or several) like 
Vimeo (or Dailymotion or even YouTube, who know?), and post a link on the wiki to the page 
of the video.

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