Packaged up Istanbul for Fedora Extras yesterday. I still haven’t gotten it in since I got busy with other work but soon. It seems funny that as a contributer to Core that I would have to go through the process of getting an account for Extras. I understand the need for process, I’m just bitching because I hate filling out forms :-).

Anyway, you can get the srpm and spec file for now at http://people.redhat.com/johnp/istanbul/. There is a patch in the srpm that fixes up the auto scripts and places the python libraries in the correct directory. I’ll send that off to the maintainer as soon as I get into work.

One thing I would like to point out is that Theora seems like the wrong codec to use for this. If anything the encoding should perhaps not happen on the fly but only after the session is over or off of a buffer. It just seems the VNC to SWF stuff produces higher quality screen captures. VNC compresses very nicly on the fly and is open source. Do we have a gstreamer plugin for VNC’s compression format? What might be cool here is seeing integration with the flumotion services to pipe the screen captures to a seperate machine for processing. Just a couple ideas to throw out there.

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