Thursday, July 23, 2009

Screencast of Freecell Solver in Action

Yesterday, I spent some time on preparing a screencast of PySolFC auto-solving a deal of Freecell using Freecell Solver . Here's an embedded player:

I remember the first time I saw KDE's KPatience automatically solving a deal of Freecell, while using Freecell Solver as its back-end. Seeing the cards move on their own was very cool, and brought me a lot of joy. Now that PySolFC has built-in support for Freecell Solver, I was able to use it to prepare the screencast. I hope you'll enjoy seeing this screencast, and would be interested in trying out PySolFC and Freecell Solver.

I'm going to blog about how I prepared the screencast on my tech blog, which may prove instructive to other people wanting to prepare screencasts on Linux. This was the first video I ever prepared and producing it proved to be a pleasant experience, even though some tasks did not work right away.

2 comments:

  1. Replying to my own post, I'd like to give some credit where it is due. Copying from the YouTube description:

    Screencast of PySolFC ( http://pysolfc.sourceforge.net/ ) solving a deal of Freecell ( http://www.solitairelaboratory.com/fc... , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeCell ) using Freecell Solver ( http://fc-solve.berlios.de ). The music in the background is the track "Function 5" from the album Lifeforce by Adam Singer ( http://www.agsinger.com/compositions/ ) - available under either CC-by or CC-by-nc.

    Other software and material used:

    * Mandriva Linux Cooker
    * KDE 4.3.x beta/RC.
    * recordmydesktop ( http://recordmydesktop.sourceforge.ne... )
    * avidemux ( http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/ )
    * http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.... as the desktop background.

    Hope you enjoy this screencast and try out PySolFC and Freecell Solver.

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