On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 10:17 AM, Brian <brian.min...@colorado.edu> wrote:
> > > On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 10:12 AM, Kat Walsh <k...@mindspillage.org> wrote: > >> 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 >> > > A reasonable estimate would require knowledge of how much free video can be > automatically acquired, it's metadata automatically parsed and then > automatically uploaded to commons. I am aware of some massive archives of > free content video. Current estimates based on images do not necessarily > apply to video, especially as we are just entering a video-aware era of the > internet. At any rate, while Gerard's estimate is a bit optimistic in my > view, it seems realistic for the near term. > Sorry, looked up to the wrong message - Gregory's estimate. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
