Brion this is so exciting! :) On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 3:53 PM, Brion Vibber <bvib...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> We've been stalled for years on adding media playback to the Wikipedia iOS > app due to the impasse between Wikimedia's insistence on free formats and > Apple's insistence on only supporting patented formats. > > I'm trying to route around that impasse by getting Ogg and WebM playback > up and running on iOS through a native widget library, which I've been > cleaning up to ready it for CocoaPods packaging. > > Here's the high-level library: > https://github.com/brion/OGVKit > > and provisional CocoaPods specifications for the low-level open-source > libraries it needs: > https://github.com/brion/OGVKit-Specs > > Once I finish some further fixes and do an API cleanup (version 0.5 on my > provisional milestones <https://github.com/brion/OGVKit/milestones>) I > plan to publish my podspecs and write a patch to the Wikipedia app that > uses OGVKit to handle media playback. > > > Rough patch plan: > * add OGVKit as dependency > * enhance the photo carousel view to instantiate a player view for > audio/video files, just like on Android > * add content CSS to clean up those video thumbnail 'Play media' links > * add a JS click handler for 'Play media' links to launch the carousel > * add a JS click handler for <audio> and <video> elements in content > * add a bunch of libraries to the list on the about page > > Ideally this should be a "surgical" patch and relatively minimal, though > an update of the Pods dir will pull in a lot of files. :) > > -- brion > > _______________________________________________ > Mobile-l mailing list > Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l > >
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