[Vnc2swf-users] install doc nits

[Carl K. <ca...@pe...>]

First, let me thank all that have anything to do with this.  It has been used 
here http://dabodev.com/documentation  and the results are very useful.

Next week I plan on recording Ed doing a 2 hour presentation.  There will be a 
video camera pointed at him, he will be miked, and hopefully the room will be 
miked too.  I hope to be able to make some little scripty thing that will play 
the mpeg of Ed and swf of his laptop at the same time and somewhat stay in sync. 
    Not that any player supports this - just launch the 2 players and have a 
3...2...1.. countdown and let the user futz with getting them synced.  Any 
advice on this would be great.

So again, thanks for providing me with a tool to make this possible.  My posts 
here are only meant to improve things, not a complaint.  I wish I had a bit more 
time right now to propose improvements - maybe in a few weeks I will.

That said, here we go:

The installation instructions left me feeling simi-lost.  I am sure I will 
figure it out, but I'll post my thoughts.  maybe a few more lines in

http://www.unixuser.org/~euske/vnc2swf/pyvnc2swf.html

will make the next person's journey smoother.

1. It took me some wandering around to find the "Installation" page.

2. It doesn't seem to actually 'install' - as in, put vnc2swf.py in /bin or some 
appropriate dir that is in the PATH.

3. README.txt doesn't  have anything useful, other than a link to the home page. 
I was expecting some sort of instructions.  perhaps an INSTALL.txt would be good 
to have.

4.juser@dhcp63:~/src/pyvnc2swf$ sudo apt-get install python-pymedia
  E: Couldn't find package python-pymedia

No problem, I think i want swf anyway.

5. "In all platforms, the following packages are required: python and pygame"

juser@dhcp63:~/src/pyvnc2swf$ ./vnc2swf.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "./vnc2swf.py", line 27, in ?
     import Tkinter, tkFileDialog, tkMessageBox, tempfile, shutil
   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 41, in ?
     raise ImportError, str(msg) + ', please install the python-tk package'
ImportError: No module named _tkinter, please install the python-tk package

6. Is this a problem?
juser@dhcp63:~/src/pyvnc2swf$ ./vnc2swf.py
Using pygame 1.7.1release
open /dev/sequencer: No such file or directory

It does run and give me a "Start" button.  I have not yet recorded anything.

Carl K