2009/6/7 Brian <brian.min...@colorado.edu>: > I think there are two issues for a proprietary -> non-proprietary converter: > 1. The conversion software itself must be FLOSS. > 2. The format being converted must have an open specification (Flash being a > good example of one that might be allowed to be converted).
The first is easy: ffmpeg. It converts pretty much anything to pretty much anything. This is what I mean when I say that the technical side of such a thing would verge on the trivial. (Modulo a sufficiently CPU-endowed box for transcoding.) The second - if ffmpeg have worked out the format, it's hardly any sort of secret any more. I think it's something that would be worth doing to get more educational material into free formats and in a repository (Commons) that could spread them to the world, even if they did start in an encumbered format. - d. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
