Tips to watch YUI Theater videos on your iPad

Just wanted to share some tips from @miraglia which he shared on a mailing list. Two things will make your life better when watching YUI Theater videos on your iPad.

#1: HD versions.

     Since late last year, YUI Theater made HD (480p) versions of all videos available for download (e.g., http://yui.zenfs.com/theater/grove-zen-hd.mov ).  The easiest way to view these on your iPad is to use an app like GoodReader to download and view them.  YUI Theater will do that for all videos that they will shoot at YUIConf this year. 

     They will also set up a YUI Theater HD podcast on iTunes to allow you to automate this in case you don't have GoodReader.  The current iTunes channel only downloads the low-resolution version.  You can use iTunes today by manually downloading the HD version, adding it to your iTunes library, and then putting it on a playlist that syncs to your iPad. 

#2: Better formatting of code and slides

     We do almost all YUI Theater work using personal equipment -- we don't have expensive Yahoo! studio gear.  But where possible we are now recording screen and speaker separately and showing the screen in the maximum resolution allowed by the video dimensions -- see http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/theater/video.php?v=glass-node (in the middle) for an example of what that looks like.  Especially for talks that have a lot of live coding, that format helps us see the screen a lot better in the video.

     We won't do this for every talk, but we'll do as much of it as we can.

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