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LRC demo, troubleshooting and debugging screencasts
2012/02/07
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- The LRC student PC image contains a file C:\temp\screencastfullhighaudio.wme
- Doubleclick or run the file, in the encoder window that comes up, click the green menu button to record your screen.
- When done demonstrating on screen, swtich back to the encoder window and click the red button to stop recording.
- Rename and archive (the student hard drive is “frozen”) the screencast video output file which you will find in c:\temp\screencast.wmv.
How to link screencasts from MS-SkyDrive
2011/10/19
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- I am trying to replace – in the routine cases that do not need post-editing, but where speed is of the essence – my practice to post-process my screencasts in MS-Expression Encoder (installed on one machine only) and upload the result with a page to load a Silverlight Control – all hosted on my MS-Windows Azure portfolio.
- Much easier and quicker would it be to store screencasts in MS-SkyDrive (mapping to drives in MS-Windows enables a more robust drag and drop than the still browser-specific web version on live.com), and top take advantage the embed links provided.
- Unfortunately, WordPress.com, my blogging platform, does not support iframes with videos from MS-SkyDrive.
- However, by linking to the URL in the embed code, to open in a new window (with the inelegant instruction to “click on the thumbnail that opens”; if it loads slow, the thumbnail ALT displays essentially the same),:

- I can get the user to an MS- Silverlight control which loads:

- and plays the video:

- more user-friendly and robustly (This has been tested to work on MS-Windows 7 with IE9 and Firefox 3.6) than distributing the bare WMVs of my screencasts directly.

