Generated rspec video

Testing RSpec
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Hi all!

A sneak preview of what I’ve been doing with my patch that made it
into rspec 1.1.3:
http://chmeee.dyndns.org/ruby/R-Spec%20Demo.avi
(2MB video)

Remarks:

  • this is a (not-too-comfortable) test of my program itself;
    that’s what causes the double-lines in some places
  • I can not use “-f p -c” since it outputs a step later than you’d
    expect! (that’s how it can get the color right, I assume)
    I’m going to wrestle this a bit tonight.

Stuff for off-list:

  • created with mencoder, I can play with mplayer.
    Reports on success or failure of other players welcome.
  • I do not have the timings of espeak and mencoder right, yet.
    If you know tools that can concatenate (malformed espeak) wav-files
    and images besides mencoder, I’d like to know. If you know how to
    let mencoder stick to the 25fps I tell it to, I’d like to know.
    (my mencoder line is echo’ed in the video)
    Experience with festival, anyone?
    I’m on linux, but I suppose that’s obvious from the tools I used.

Bye,
Kero.

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On Feb 12, 2008 1:07 AM, [email protected] wrote:

Hi all!

A sneak preview of what I’ve been doing with my patch that made it
into rspec 1.1.3:
http://chmeee.dyndns.org/ruby/R-Spec%20Demo.avi
(2MB video)

Stuff for off-list:

  • created with mencoder, I can play with mplayer.
    Reports on success or failure of other players welcome.

weird codec combo… you should have used thedora or xvid at least :stuck_out_tongue:
(cannot play or even recognize the .avi codec signature).

Anyway, will look at it when switch to linux.

–
Luis L.
Multimedia systems

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something completely foolproof is to underestimate
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On 12/02/2008, at 14:07 , [email protected] wrote:

A sneak preview of what I’ve been doing with my patch that made it
into rspec 1.1.3:
http://chmeee.dyndns.org/ruby/R-Spec%20Demo.avi

What format is that video? I’ve got DivX and various others loaded,
but none of them want to work on that video.

Alex

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On Feb 12, 2008 2:45 AM, Andrew WC Brown [email protected] wrote:

If this is a a video mostly in a text editor like TextMate I’d recommend
converting it to Apple Animation.

I’ve tried several times to get Quicktime output good (ala: highly
compressed, small size) files with it and failed… It seems if the
source isn’t captured with it, the compression is the worse you could
get (200MB files for 5 minutes).

–
Luis L.
Multimedia systems

A common mistake that people make when trying to design
something completely foolproof is to underestimate
the ingenuity of complete fools.
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If this is a a video mostly in a text editor like TextMate I’d recommend
converting it to Apple Animation.

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A sneak preview of what I’ve been doing with my patch that made it
into rspec 1.1.3:

Stuff for off-list:

  • created with mencoder, I can play with mplayer.
    Reports on success or failure of other players welcome.

weird codec combo… you should have used thedora or xvid at least :stuck_out_tongue:
(cannot play or even recognize the .avi codec signature).

mencoder manages neither libxvid or libtheora as video encoder.
No clue why, it should support them. I put up six combinations
which google helped me find on
http://chmeee.dyndns.org/ruby/
but xine and vlc only do audio as well as video on the wmv8+wmav2
video.

Showed the stuff yesterday on NYC.rb, got one comment to hook this
up to selenium (instead of the -f p -c). and that the nice thing:
these formatters (listeners) allow you to execute about anything
you’d want :slight_smile:

Bye,
Kero.