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Mark,<br>
Did Fred's tip below help at all?<br>
<br>
Can you clarify what version of Memorize you're struggling with in
Sugar-on-a-Stick, that is lacking the Create tab you're trying to
showcase in the screencast?<br>
<br>
<br>
On 3/19/2012 8:05 PM, Frederick Grose wrote:
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 4:14 PM, Mark
Battley <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:battley@sympatico.ca" target="_blank">battley@sympatico.ca</a>></span>
wrote:<br>
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<div style="word-wrap:break-word">Hi all:
<div><br>
</div>
<div>As many of you already know, I have been exploring a
range of options for screencasts in advance of the April
Manual book-sprint in Boston in April. I have experimented
with Sugar's Screencast, recordmydesktop and, with
emulators on the Mac (a 17" MBP, a 15" MBP, and a 13" MB
Air) using Screenflow. </div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>We are looking at the full spectrum of options, but my
immediate question has to do with using SoaS on the
emulators, specifically VMware. <span
style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">The
goal here is to get Record working within the emulator,
so that we can do screencasts that demonstrate the full
capability of Fototoon, Memorize and Scratch working in
combination with Record. </span></div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>I have been using <span
style="text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-variant:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;font-style:normal;display:inline!important;font-weight:normal;float:none;line-height:normal;text-transform:none;font-size:13px;white-space:normal;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;word-spacing:0px">Fedora-16-x86_64-Live-SoaS.iso
(but also experimenting
with F16-i686_SoaS_CL-disk1.vmdk)</span></div>
<div><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span
style="font-size:13px"><br>
</span></font></div>
<div><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span
style="font-size:13px">We have had the most success
with VMware:</span></font></div>
<div>
<ul>
<li><span
style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">In
Virtual Box, in Record, the Mac's mic works, but not
the cam.</span></li>
<li><span
style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">In
Parallels, in Record, the Mac's cam works for stills
but not video, and the mic is non-functional.</span></li>
<li><span
style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">In
VMware, we have had both cam and mic fully
functioning as you can see in this very rough test:</span></li>
<li><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://db.tt/NcPRRkiy" target="_blank">http://db.tt/NcPRRkiy</a></li>
</ul>
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<div>
<div>
<div>
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<div><br>
</div>
<div>When it works, it works flawlessly.... but as
often as not we get this: "Record Failed To Start"</div>
</div>
</div>
<div><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://cl.ly/2H0x0b3i201d29142n1k"
target="_blank">http://cl.ly/2H0x0b3i201d29142n1k</a></div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>
<ul>
<li>We get this "Failed to Start" message on many
other Activities, not just Record. Often, by
re-launching the 'machine' within VMware, or by
re-starting VMware itself, the problem goes away,
but often it does not. </li>
<li>Any success we have had has been on the MBP 15".
We have yet to get it to work reliably on the MBP
17" , and it has never worked on the MB Air 13".</li>
<li>This "Failed to Start" has shown up in Virtual
Box as well on the MBP 17</li>
</ul>
<div>Please let me know if any of you have...</div>
</div>
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<div>
<div>
<div>1) Experience running SoaS on an emulator on a
Mac and have successfully accessed record</div>
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</div>
<div>
<div>
<div>2) Have any idea why we are getting the "Failed
to Start" message</div>
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<div>One possibility I've experienced is busy networking. One
could use the Log Activity to examine the shell and telepathy
logs for evidence. The failed launch will have a log that
might show some information, such as a timeout.</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>SoaS defaults to using <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://jabber.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">jabber.sugarlabs.org</a>.
Try removing that collaboration server to eliminate this
possibility.</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div> --Fred</div>
<div><br>
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<div style="word-wrap:break-word">Mark Roy Battley</div>
<div style="word-wrap:break-word"><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.ntugigroup.org" target="_blank">www.ntugigroup.org</a></div>
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<div style="word-wrap:break-word"><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.ntugischool.com" target="_blank">www.ntugischool.com</a></div>
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