Thread: Proposal for "Maemo User School" hosted on maemo.org to replace Tablet School
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2009-04-30 , 13:50
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#19
Originally Posted by krisse View Post
-People who write tutorials often leave stuff out, or write stuff unclearly. That can't happen with videos.
Well, this is up to the tutorial author to fix. Learning how to make GOOD tutorials does not look like a fundamental problem to me.

-Videos of a GUI in use are easy to understand in any language, increasing the global appeal of maemo.
An animated screenshot will work just as well.

I spent a lot of time and effort on making my videos as clear and well-shot as possible
When saying that YouTube videos are smeared, jerky, and barely recognizable, I am not blaming you for making them this way. All these qualities are due to the media format itself, not to the author. It is the media format I suggest changing, not the author

You can browse through videos in the index page. I suggested in my original post that there would be an index for the videos just like the current index for downloads.
While you can browse through a list of videos, you cannot easily browse inside a video due to its sequential nature (i.e. one frame at a time).

The percentage of tablet users without a 256k+ connection must be very very small.
Oh yes, except that the last hop of that connection is WiFi, whose reception varies depending on where in the house you are.

You can have a table of contents with ANY media type, you just need to embed content on web pages which are organised into an index. I talked about all this in my original post...
Again, you can obviously have an index of videos, having an index of a single video contents is more problematic.

Anyways, I am not persuaded that one should use videos for computer tutorials, especially considering the quality limitations of these Flash videos. Maybe go with animated images aka "screencasts"?
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