Istanbul screencasting

[Nicu Buculei]

Paul W. Frields wrote:
> If you try the new packages located in koji here:
>   http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=2138
> 
> Please also leave a message in bodhi saying it worked:
>   https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/search/istanbul 
> 
> Then Jef can get the package pushed more easily into the actual updates
> repositories.

So it seems Istanbul is now able to record videos with sound (at least, 
it was long time missing), which is an useful feature.

However, I will be picky and list another needed feature: video quality 
adjustment (not having it, I find compelled to use gtk-RecordMyDesktop 
instead, but that had its share of problems too).
Istanbul have a predefined, low, setting quality. This is suboptimal for 
a couple of reasons:
- a maximum video quality (100 for RecordMyDesktop) is much easier on 
your CPU (less compression to do), so it allows recording screencasts on 
less powerful machines (at the price of larger file sizes);
- the built it video quality in Istanbul is low, very low. While it may 
not matter when uploading to YouTube, which lowers the quality even 
further, for desktop viewing it *is* noticeable.

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