Personally I am in contact with the School of Cinema of Lugano to investigate a partnership and as soon I said that Commons accepts only open format like ogg... there was a general unsatisfaction.
The proposal was to upload in another website in proprietary format and after convert in open format. Regards On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 3:05 PM, Yann Heurtaux <yann.heurt...@gmail.com>wrote: > We should talk a bit more with the Mozilla Foundation about that. > > I've seen how far you can push video editing for the (social) web with > Popcorn <https://mozillalabs.com/en-US/Popcorn/> at Mozilla Festival, > last october in London; there's definitely an interest, a frustration and > high expectations by a lot of Wikimedians AND news professionals in this > field. > > Same goes for sound in Commons: we have to be at least on par with > Soundcloud, some day... > > > On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 1:03 PM, Manuel Schneider < > manuel.schnei...@wikimedia.ch> wrote: > >> Am 16.01.2014 12:59, schrieb Gabriel Thullen: >> > Instead of introducing full MPG4 support, we could support the >> > development of a tool to transform a MPG4 file into an Open format which >> > could be used on Commons. >> >> This is what I am looking for since a longer time and even made a >> proposal to the WMF, which got dismissed due to the patent problematics. >> >> The point is that we don't just need a conversion service but also a way >> allowing us to collaboratively work on videos and store our raw videos >> (this is where MP4 / H.264 comes in). >> >> So if the WMF can sort out the legal problem on accepting H.264, I would >> vote to only use it as an input format (which is one of the options on >> the RfC page). With that done, we could finally implement a video >> solution allowing collaborative editing and storage of raw material. >> >> The output always should be a free codec / format, fully agree with that. >> >> Find a description on what I mean here: >> http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2014-January/129671.html >> >> >> /Manuel >> -- >> Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens >> Lausanne, +41 (21) 34066-22 - www.wikimedia.ch >> >> _______________________________________________ >> http://wikimedia.ch Wikimedia CH website >> Wikimediach-l mailing list >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediach-l >> > > > > -- > *- Yann Heurtaux* > Freelance Conversationalist > @shalf - http://shalf.me > +41 78 845 9266 > > _______________________________________________ > http://wikimedia.ch Wikimedia CH website > Wikimediach-l mailing list > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediach-l > > -- Ilario Valdelli Wikimedia CH Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Association pour l’avancement des connaissances libre Associazione per il sostegno alla conoscenza libera Switzerland - 8008 Zürich Wikipedia: Ilario <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ilario> Facebook: Ilario Valdelli <https://www.facebook.com/ivaldelli> Twitter: Ilario Valdelli <https://twitter.com/ilariovaldelli> Linkedin: Ilario Valdelli <http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=6724469> Skype: Ilario Valdelli Tel: +41764821371 http://www.wikimedia.ch
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