yea would have to be opt in. Would have to have controls over how-much bandwidth sent out... We could encourage people to enable it by sending out a the higher bit-rate / quality version ~by default~ for those that opt-in.
--michael Ryan Lane wrote: > On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 1:57 PM, Michael Dale<md...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > >> Look back 2 years and you can see the xiph communities blog posts and >> conversations with Mozilla. It was not a given that Firefox would ship >> with ogg theora baseline video support (they took some convening and had >> to do some thinking about it, a big site like wikipedia exclusively >> using the free formats technology probably helped their decision). >> Originally the xiph/annodex community built the liboggplay library as an >> extension. This later became the basis for the library that powers >> firefox ogg theora video today. Likewise we are putting features into >> firefogg that we eventually hope will be supported by browsers natively. >> Also in theory we could put a thin bittorrent client into java Cortado >> to support IE users as well. >> >> > > If watching video on Wikipedia requires bittorrent, most corporate > environments are going to be locked out. If a bittorrent client is > loaded by default for the videos, most corporate environments are > going to blacklist wikipedia's java apps. > > I'm not saying p2p distributed video is a bad idea, and the Wikimedia > foundation may not care about how corporate environments react; > however, I think it is a bad idea to either force users to use a p2p > client, or make them opt-out. > > Ignoring corporate clients... firing up a p2p client on end-user's > systems could cause serious issues for some. What if I'm browsing on a > 3g network, or a satellite connection where my bandwidth is metered? > > Maybe this is something that could be delivered via a gadget and > enabled in user preferences? > > V/r, > > Ryan Lane > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
