On 21 March 2012 08:17, Jürgen Fenn <schneeschme...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> I wonder whether we should rather use our strength in users' demand in > order to make pressure on manufacturers to support free-software > codecs than adopting the costly and patented codecs. I mean, it's not > only about content. MediaWiki and Wikimedia should remain free from a > technical point of view, too. The actual problem there is there's not enough video content on Wikimedia sites as yet to make this a user pressure issue. So we need to be able to *ingest* anything that comes in from a camera or a phone, even if we save it as Theora or VP8. (This is harder than it sounds, but is apparently in progress, in the coming-some-day Timed Media Handler.) At that point we can start on serious programs to add video. Every article on a street should have video of the street, for example. Video of athletes in action [1]. Etc. - d. [1] and boy will *that* be interesting for egregious overreaching claims of copyright by sports leagues, but anyway. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
