New Screencast - "PySolFC Solving a Freecell Deal Using Freecell Solver's qualified-seed-improved preset."

[Shlomi Fish]

Hi all,

I have created a new screencast yesterday:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYdqNuX4WJc

Before I give you the description here are some insights from the experience:

1. That was the second “professional” screencast I prepared (i.e: not ad-hoc
to demonstrate a bug/etc.) and it seemed much easier this time.

2. You can find the sources for the screencast here:
https://bitbucket.org/shlomif/pysolfc-qualified-seed-improved-screencast .
They include an .ogv file of the video, some Audacity project files for
manipulating the CC-By-NC-licensed music I used, and a Bash script that uses
ffmpeg to combine the two.

3. I was happy from the result.

Reading from the description:

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Since my last screenshot of PySolFC solving a deal using Freecell Solver, the
solver has improved. More recently, some work was done to improve the average
solution length and this aims to be a demonstration of it.

The configuration used is: "-l qualified-seed -fif 5 --flares-choice fcpro".

Here are the credits and attribution:

The KDE desktop environment (under GPLv2 and later and compatible licences -
http://www.kde.org/ ) running on top of Mageia Linux 3/Cauldron (under
GPLv2/GPLv3 and other licences - http://www.mageia.org/ ) - BTW, PySolFC can
run fine on Windows and Mac OS X, so don't worry about it.

PySolFC 2.0, somewhat modified under GPLv3 and later -
http://github.com/shlomif/PySolFC based on http://pysolfc.sourceforge.net/ .

Freecell Solver - http://fc-solve.shlomifish.org/ - under the MIT/X11 licence
by Shlomi Fish and others (me).

Background music is http://ccmixter.org/files/unreal_dm/34219 under CC-By-NC by
Unreal DM. Modified slightly using Audacity ( http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
).

Background for the desktop is http://www.flickr.com/photos/crerwin/1089567053/
under CC-By by Chris Erwin ( http://www.flickr.com/photos/crerwin/ )

The PySolFC background was taken from
http://www.flickr.com/photos/philleara/8168379265/sizes/o/in/pool-77356438@N00/
and under the Public Domain (by http://www.flickr.com/photos/philleara - Philip
Leara).

Other programs used in the creation of this video were recordmydesktop
( http://recordmydesktop.sourceforge.net/about.php ), GVim
( http://www.vim.org/ ), ffmpeg ( http://ffmpeg.org/ ), Bash, Konsole and VLC.
Some help for ffmpeg was provided by ubitux on #ffmpeg on Freenode (thanks!).

Some extra thanks go to Danny A. Jones and Gary Campbell from the
fc-solve-discuss mailing list (who inspired and/or contributed to some of the
changes) and to soryy708 and snowyrooftops who started to work on an
alternative GUI to Freecell Solver, which may complement PySolFC.

Happy holidays everyone!
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Regards,

Shlomi Fish

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