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On 09/06/2011 03:33 PM, Brion Vibber wrote:
All good news!
The player support is definitely a lot nicer -- and I think we've been
running extra JS stuff from that on Commons for a while.
Yea the js has been running as a gadget for a while. But I have forked
away from the
It will be a lot easier to import from YouTube once Timed media handler adds
support for webm to commons. If you check out the wikivideo-l and commons lists
for some recent example YouTube to commons scripts. I know this is not super
useful info right this second, but there is hope on the
and such and have to make it through
caching proxies and whatnot), but there's also been some new work on
improved chunked uploads for FireFogg (and perhaps for general modern
browsers that can do fancier uploads). Michael Dale can probably give some
updates on this, but it'll be a bit yet before it's
The wikimedia community has started translating some of the videos
using free software tools and uploading to be playback on the site with
the mutlimedia beta.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nice_People_MEDIUM.ogv?withJS:MediaWiki:MwEmbed.js
This has a long way to go to match google
,
GerardM
2009/9/6 Michael Dale d...@ucsc.edu
I think a small interactive quiz or 30-60 sec videos at point of upload
/ contribution.. may help encourage people to get informed about these
subjects and properly tag the media. For media pulled from external
archive we should ideally
I think a small interactive quiz or 30-60 sec videos at point of upload
/ contribution.. may help encourage people to get informed about these
subjects and properly tag the media. For media pulled from external
archive we should ideally only support importing compatible licensed media
I don't
There has been a technical discussion on wikitech-l regarding the
recommendation of a browser for the high quality open video experience.
Some native implementations are ~presently~ non optimal and the java
cortado applet we use where no native support is available is a poor
user experience
I am definitely not opposed to adding in that functionality as I have
mentioned in the past:
see thread:
http://www.mail-archive.com/wikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org/msg00888.html
You should take a look at the work Mike Baynton did back in summer of
code 07.
The issue that we have is both the
We have done a good amount of work with archive.org to ensure that their
archive is interpretable. I know from the present vantage point it does
not seem helpful to have media on archive.org... but as features like
the add_media_wizard get deployed it will make a lot more sense why it
does not
-flow.
--michael
Brian wrote:
Firefogg is not a very usable solution for most users. It requires far too
much sophistication. Users should be able to just upload video that they
know is under a free license and then everything else happens on the
backend.
On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 3:57 PM, Michael
Yep, good news indeed :)
Kat Walsh wrote:
Another step towards an open web -- Google's Chrome browser is going
to support Theora video natively with the HTML5 video tag:
http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2009/05/google-chrome-3-adds-html5.html
http://codereview.chromium.org/115625/diff/1/2
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