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posted: 23 Sep 2020 22:47

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Martin Wynne
 
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The tests for the Virtual Scaleforum on Saturday reminded me that a few years ago I tried broadcasting my Templot screen as a way of providing quick Templot help and support instead of writing long replies and making screenshots and videos.

It wasn't very successful then, but browser tech and broadband seems to have improved a bit since, so I have had another go. So far it seems to be working quite well, at least here. If you go to this link right now:

 http://templot.com/companion/live_screen.php

you should be able to see Templot running. You can tell it's live because the red radius warning indicator should be flashing. If not, try pressing CTRL+F5 to refresh the page. Allow 20 seconds or so before anything much happens.

From time to time for the next few hours I will dabble with it just to see how well it works.

Please report if it is working for you, the image quality, etc. Thanks.

p.s. this is not using Google, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Instazoomgram, or any other MegaCorporation harvesting your hat size. You don't need to register, sign in, give your email address or any information at all. It's running on a small UK-based streaming service, and displayed on the Templot web site.

cheers,

Martin.

posted: 23 Sep 2020 22:57

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Paul Boyd
 
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Interesting idea!
For those on an iPad, there is no Ctrl-F5 to press, of course.  Tapping on the video window got the round doughnut spinning, then clicking the ‘Live’ button bottom left got the red radius warning flashing!

I’ll have a look on a Windows computer to tomorrow, although I realise there may not be a live session going at any given time.  So long as it’s not you doing online banking as a live broadcast!

Cheers,
Paul

posted: 23 Sep 2020 23:11

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Martin Wynne
 
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Thanks Paul.

I've now noticed that for reasons known only to the screen capture software, the mouse cursor is in the wrong place. That's going to make demonstrations interesting! If I can't find a fix I shall have to make a big arrow which I can push around the screen. :)

It's probably related to the screen DPI setting.

The streaming and receiving back is driving my system quite hard at around 38% CPU, but it seems happy at that.

cheers,

Martin.

posted: 23 Sep 2020 23:22

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Martin Wynne
 
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p.s. the audio is off by default. To test it on, click the green loudspeaker button bottom left of the video. At present the microphone is picking up from my system speakers.

cheers,

Martin.


posted: 23 Sep 2020 23:57

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Rob Manchester
 
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Hi Martin,
I can see the 'Live' screen with the radius warning flashing ( just so you know somebody other than Paul is here :) )

The display doesn't show a whole screen. Is it supposed to ? I can see the 'Swel' ( but not the rest of the button ) in the top right and down bottom left I can see just below the centre of the switch operating linkage.

Rob



posted: 24 Sep 2020 00:23

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Rob Manchester
 
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Hi Martin,

I can now see all the way to the right of the screen but have lost the left edge.

Rob


posted: 24 Sep 2020 00:26

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Martin Wynne
 
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Rob Manchester wrote:
Hi Martin,
I can see the 'Live' screen with the radius warning flashing ( just so you know somebody other than Paul is here :) )

The display doesn't show a whole screen. Is it supposed to ? I can see the 'Swel' ( but not the rest of the button ) in the top right and down bottom left I can see just below the centre of the switch operating linkage.
Thanks Rob.

Currently no, the capture size is set to 1236 wide so that it fits the Companion page format (intended for 1280-wide screens, with browser borders). If I reduce the trackpad window size to 1236, at my current menu font size, the menu bar breaks to 2 lines, which would confuse everyone.

I have just now moved the window across a bit, but now we have lost the grid Y-axis. I will get these cosmetics fixed in due course.

At the bottom you should be seeing just 450mm as the X-dimension. I've set the capture height to 824 (3:2 ratio). It can be anything, but I have to keep in mind that some folks have smallish screens, and I need to keep the CPU usage within sensible bounds. (Currently streaming at 2.0 Mbps, 38% total CPU).

How does the image quality look on your screen? The longer I have left it running the better it's got here. With source and stream side by side there is not much in it -- the stream would be quite usable for normal work. It's better than the FlashBackConnect videos.

cheers,

Martin.

posted: 24 Sep 2020 00:36

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Rob Manchester
 
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Hi Martin,

Display is like this :
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Looks fine, quality wise.

Rob


posted: 24 Sep 2020 00:52

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Martin Wynne
 
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Hi Rob,

Thanks for the screenshot. That does look fine.

But it's only about 1090 wide, so presumably you have zoomed out a bit in the browser?

How does that size compare with how Templot looks when you are using it normally?

Looking promising, much better than last time I tried this.

How's the audio volume? With the green volume slider set to about 50%, and your system set similar, it should be about right for normal listening.

cheers,

Martin.

posted: 24 Sep 2020 01:09

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Rob Manchester
 
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Hi Martin,
My screen resolution is 1920x1080 so the live stream is a good deal smaller but still fine for it's intended purpose.

The audio is very quiet. Setting the slider upto full I have to turn my physical speaker knob way up to hear anything and I can't even make out what the music is.

Off to bed now. Far too late to be staring at a screen, much better to stare at a whiskey glass :D

Rob


posted: 24 Sep 2020 15:11

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Martin Wynne
 
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Computer getting warm after several hours running, but still streaming fine. :)

I'm thinking of an an online dabble session on Saturday evening after Scaleforum closes, if anyone would be interested?

More about that:

 http://www.scalefour.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=7132

cheers,

Martin.

posted: 24 Sep 2020 15:38

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Godfrey Earnshaw
 
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Well that works OK
However, it's a bit like watching paint dry.
I thought I was going to see rip roaring action and a demonstration of a Templot Meister.

Cheers Godders.

PSonline dabble would be nice on Saturday.

posted: 24 Sep 2020 16:29

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Martin Wynne
 
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Godfrey Earnshaw wrote:
Well that works OK
However, it's a bit like watching paint dry.
I thought I was going to see rip roaring action and a demonstration of a Templot Meister.
Hi Godders,

All in good time. :)

First we need to establish if it works. And how many can be watching before the quality goes too far downhill. I've subscribed for up to 200 simultaneous users, but I suspect that is hopelessly optimistic for decent image quality. But it ought to be ok for a dozen or so.

Then we need to know if anyone is actually watching with interest.

And finally we need someone to ask a question.

What I hope won't happen, but often tends to, is that instead of talking about the actual subject, the whole time is taken up discussing who can see it, who can't, what they might be doing wrong, and how to fix it.

So I'm leaving it running for a few hours while the paint dries, to find out who can and can't see it. At least well enough to be usable.

cheers,

Martin.

posted: 24 Sep 2020 17:38

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Charles Orr
 
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Hi Martin,

I can see it perfectly clearly and have been watching over the past hour

Charles

posted: 24 Sep 2020 17:55

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Martin Wynne
 
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Charles Orr wrote:
Hi Martin,

I can see it perfectly clearly and have been watching over the past hour

Charles
Thanks Charles.

How does the image quality compare with Templot when you are using it normally? It can't ever be as good after H.264 streaming, but hopefully it's not too bad. Unfortunately there's no lossless streaming service available that I can find.

For size you can zoom your browser to suit your screen.

cheers,

Martin.

posted: 24 Sep 2020 17:56

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Tony W
 
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Hi Martin.
The picture is clear enough here, but I don't get the full screen width. That is probably down to the screen resolution on my laptop. Before you ask, there is no horizontal slider available.
Regards
Tony.

PS It now seems to be working fine and I can see all the screen.

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posted: 24 Sep 2020 18:07

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Martin Wynne
 
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Tony W wrote:
Hi Martin.
The picture is clear enough here, but I don't get the full screen width. That is probably down to the screen resolution on my laptop. Before you ask, there is no horizontal slider available.
Regards
Tony.
Thanks Tony,

I'm not broadcasting the full trackpad width. If I do that, it won't fit the Companion web page format for users with 1280-wide screens. If I reduce the trackpad width to fit, the menu bar breaks into two lines, and some of the tool-buttons are cut off -- as you can see now.

The easiest solution for now is to crop the trackpad left and right to fit.

If this concept takes off, I can produce a customized version of Templot to suit broadcasting better.

cheers,

Martin.

posted: 24 Sep 2020 18:09

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Phil O
 
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Hi Martin,

Unfortunately I will miss both the Scaleforum video extravaganza and also your contribution to expanding my Templot knowledge, but me and the girlfriend are having a weekend away, it was originally going to be in Aylesbury, but when the show was cancelled, we/she decided on Gloucester, a place that I used to travel through in the days before the M5, but never actually stopped and visited.

Cheers

Phil.
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posted: 24 Sep 2020 18:14

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Charles Orr
 
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The quality is excellent.

IF I zoom right in, the text has fuzzy edges but that is hardly surprising.

The movement, which has just started, is fluid with no ghosting

I can hear some stringed instruments - violins,cellos?

posted: posted: 24 Sep 2020 18:20

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Martin Wynne
 
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Hi Phil,

I understand that most of Scaleforum will continue to be available after the event, and no doubt if this Templot thingy works out it can be repeated in future.

Gloucester Docks is well worth a visit (assuming it is open in these difficult times):

 http://www.gloucesterdocks.me.uk/gloucester/forvisitors.htm

cheers,

Martin.

24 Sep 2020 18:20

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Charles Orr
 
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Here is a Snagit  image8_241320_260000000.png8_241320_260000000.png

posted: 24 Sep 2020 18:28

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Martin Wynne
 
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Charles Orr wrote:
I can hear some stringed instruments - violins,cellos?
Hi Charles,

Here you go: http://www.rnz.co.nz/concert/programmes/musicthroughthenight

Time now in NZ is 05:28 am.

I hope no NZ copyright lawyers are awake yet. :)

I'm using it to test the volume setting.

Thanks for the screenshot -- that looks great. Better than here in fact, but that's because my broadband is working both ways at once.

cheers,

Martin.

posted: 24 Sep 2020 18:32

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Charles Orr
 
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Zen in Rochdale is my ISP.

I consistently get 70 Mbits/sec download from them and that is

unlimited.

posted: 24 Sep 2020 19:18

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Trevor Walling
 
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Hello Martin,
      It works great with linux on a 1920 X 1080 tv screen and I can get sound via HDMI just a bit low possibly.
I can view it on a normal desktop view and even larger if I click on fullscreen at the bottom right
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posted: 24 Sep 2020 19:19

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Trevor Walling
 
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Hello Martin,
       This is the view fullscreen

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posted: 24 Sep 2020 19:30

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Trevor Walling
 
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Hello,
      This is fullscreen fully zoomed in
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posted: 24 Sep 2020 19:53

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Martin Wynne
 
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Thanks Trevor for the screenshots.

It's beginning to look very promising. As last night, the quality seems to improve once we get beyond the working day (UK).

cheers,

Martin.



posted: 25 Sep 2020 08:05

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Phil O
 
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Martin Wynne wrote:
Hi Phil,

I understand that most of Scaleforum will continue to be available after the event, and no doubt if this Templot thingy works out it can be repeated in future.

Gloucester Docks is well worth a visit (assuming it is open in these difficult times):

 http://www.gloucesterdocks.me.uk/gloucester/forvisitors.htm

cheers,

Martin.
Hi Martin,

Thanks for the link, I knew about one or two items on the list, several look as though they could be very interesting, if I get the chance.

Cheers

Phil.

posted: 25 Sep 2020 17:00

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Martin Wynne
 
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Thanks for all the feedback. It seems that the technology is good for us, so now we need to put it to use, and I see Danny Cockling has added me as a postscript to the Virtual Scaleforum show tomorrow:  :)

 http://www.scalefour.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=78726#p78726

I'm proposing to start the proceedings, if they can be called such, at about 7pm and continue for most of the evening. I shall be dabbling with Templot and nattering about what I'm doing. If you have any questions or help requests please post them in this topic or on the Scalefour forum, and I will try to answer them.

To try out the format and learn from mistakes I shall be doing the same at various times this evening, but I can't say when or for how long.

Here's the link again:

 http://templot.com/companion/live_screen.php

cheers,

Martin.

posted: 25 Sep 2020 18:52

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Andrew Barrowman
 
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Alas, not really working here. Probably running into a bit of congestion near the Azores.

posted: 25 Sep 2020 18:56

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Martin Wynne
 
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Andrew Barrowman wrote:
Alas, not really working here. Probably running into a bit of congestion near the Azores.
Hi Andy,

Sorry about that. Maybe Trump has blocked it? :)

What does "not really" mean? Can you see anything?

Anyone else on your side of the pond?

cheers,

Martin.

posted: 25 Sep 2020 20:05

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Martin Wynne
 
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8pm, so I'm going start a bit of a dabble now. :)

It would be good if you could reply to say you are watching -- there isn't any way otherwise for me to know how many are watching. I will delete the posts afterwards.

Martin.

posted: 25 Sep 2020 20:17

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Charles Orr
 
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Hi Martin,
I'm currently watching.

The screen goes blurry at regular intervals when you are working but it does not detract from viewing

Charles

posted: 25 Sep 2020 20:19

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Charles Orr
 
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Ah Ok, I understand

posted: 25 Sep 2020 20:20

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Charles Orr
 
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It's not a problem as I said

The volume is a tad low

posted: 25 Sep 2020 20:22

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Charles Orr
 
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I must say that I'm finding this incredibly useful.

posted: 25 Sep 2020 20:23

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Charles Orr
 
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Yes I can do that.

It's fine now.

posted: 25 Sep 2020 20:24

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Charles Orr
 
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I've got a dual monitor setup here. Live Templot on one and Templot Club on the other .

posted: 25 Sep 2020 20:26

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Charles Orr
 
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It's fine now Martin, I've adjusted my volume.

posted: 25 Sep 2020 20:29

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Dave Phillips
 
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Hi Martin,
One watching from NJ. Looks great and volume is loud enough.
Dave

posted: posted: 25 Sep 2020 20:32

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Charles Orr
 
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The blurryness has stopped now

25 Sep 2020 20:32

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alan@york
 
 

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watching...

posted: 25 Sep 2020 20:40

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Charles Orr
 
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Not that much.

I should move the mike back to where it was. Getting a lot of rumbling now so prbably too close

posted: 25 Sep 2020 20:46

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John Lewis
 
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Hi Martin.
I have been watching. I can see the whole of the track plan (27" monitor). It sems to go fast on my system. Can watching people save the demo to look at again at leisure, please?

I could hear you speak, but had to turn it off as my wife is watching a TV programme!
Best wishes,
John

posted: 25 Sep 2020 20:53

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Charles Orr
 
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Martin,

Thank you very much for that live demonstration.

As I said, I found it incredibly useful.

posted: 25 Sep 2020 21:10

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Martin Wynne
 
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Thanks for all the messages. I'm glad it's proving useful.

Back now with a fresh cup of tea. :)

M.

posted: 25 Sep 2020 21:29

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Charles Orr
 
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I'm watching.

All good

posted: 25 Sep 2020 21:33

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Julian Roberts
 
 

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Hi Martin

Great!

Unfortunately I can't participate this weekend - hopefully you'll be doing this on more occasions?

Cheers
Julian
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posted: 25 Sep 2020 21:55

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Martin Wynne
 
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Hi Julian,

Yes, if my voice lasts I'm hoping to do this again from time to time. :)

Ideally it needs a bit of advanced planning, this evening's bout is just to find out what goes wrong. I've already discovered that I need to look at the DPI settings when capturing screenshot maps.

cheers,

Martin.

posted: 25 Sep 2020 23:20

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Martin Wynne
 
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John Lewis wrote:
Can watching people save the demo to look at again at leisure, please?
Hi John,

If you have some screen recorder software, you can make a recording of the proceedings to play again at a later date. There are lots of such programs available. A good free one (for Windows) is:

 http://www.flashbackrecorder.com/express/

Also, for archive and record purposes I'm keeping recordings on my system. Which I could post on here if wanted. However they are in separate 10-minute clips to keep the file sizes within reason, so would need a lot of editing to make something sensible worth posting. For example tonight's trial session created 18 such files, so that would be 180 minutes (3 hours) of video to sort through and edit.

Thanks for watching. :)

cheers,

Martin.

posted: 26 Sep 2020 05:00

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Andrew Barrowman
 
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Dave Phillips wrote:
Hi Martin,
One watching from NJ. Looks great and volume is loud enough.
Dave
Hi Dave,
We used to live in Wyckoff before we went West.

Andy





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