On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 9:57 AM, David Gerard<dger...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2009/8/1 Brian <brian.min...@colorado.edu>: > >> I think you vastly underestimate the amount of video that will be uploaded. >> Michael is right in thinking big and thinking distributed. CPU cycles are >> not *that* cheap. There is a lot of free video out there and as soon as we >> have a stable system in place wikimedians are going to have a heyday >> uploading it to Commons. > > > Oh hell yes. If I could just upload any AVI or MPEG4 straight off a > camera, you bet I would. Just imagine what people who've never heard > the word "Theora" will do.
Even if so, I don't think assuming that every single commons upload at the current rate will instead be a 15-minute video is much of an underestimate... -Kat -- Your donations keep Wikipedia online: http://donate.wikimedia.org/en Wikimedia, Press: k...@wikimedia.org * Personal: k...@mindspillage.org http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mindspillage * (G)AIM:Mindspillage mindspillage or mind|wandering on irc.freenode.net * email for phone _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
