Re: [Foundation-l] YouTube and Creative Commons

2011-06-04 Thread Mike Dupont
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 4:45 PM, Tanvir Rahman wikitan...@gmail.com wrote: formate. So, I think most of the YouTube videos need to be converted to ogv (from mpeg or flv). Can we do that automatically with script? ffmpeg and or mencoder can do this, in theory it could run on toolserver, but those

Re: [Foundation-l] YouTube and Creative Commons

2011-06-03 Thread Tanvir Rahman
We have uploaded images from Flickr, and Commons supports image formates like, jpg, png, svg, and others, but for videos it supports only ogv formate. So, I think most of the YouTube videos need to be converted to ogv (from mpeg or flv). Can we do that automatically with script? Currently we have

Re: [Foundation-l] YouTube and Creative Commons

2011-06-03 Thread David Gerard
On 3 June 2011 15:45, Tanvir Rahman wikitan...@gmail.com wrote: We have uploaded images from Flickr, and Commons supports image formates like, jpg, png, svg, and others, but for videos it supports only ogv formate. So, I think most of the YouTube videos need to be converted to ogv (from mpeg

Re: [Foundation-l] YouTube and Creative Commons

2011-06-03 Thread Tanvir Rahman
WebM videos on YouTube are in a free format. Do we accept WebM yet? From Commons page [1]: WebM support will likely be added in the future. See this bug report [2] for its current status and this test wiki [3] for implementation tests. So, as of now, we don't support WebM. :S Regards, --

Re: [Foundation-l] YouTube and Creative Commons

2011-06-03 Thread Mono mium
No, we don't. Our video support is laughable. On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 8:09 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 3 June 2011 15:45, Tanvir Rahman wikitan...@gmail.com wrote: We have uploaded images from Flickr, and Commons supports image formates like, jpg, png, svg, and others, but

Re: [Foundation-l] YouTube and Creative Commons

2011-06-03 Thread Aryeh Gregor
2011/6/3 Jon Harald Søby jhs...@gmail.com: The only reason I can see for not allowing embedding is that embedding would be promoting YouTube Embedding YouTube videos in Wikimedia content would send IP addresses and other information about Wikimedia users to Google. This is against Wikimedia's

Re: [Foundation-l] YouTube and Creative Commons

2011-06-03 Thread aude
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 6:24 PM, Aryeh Gregor simetrical+wikil...@gmail.comwrote: 2011/6/3 Jon Harald Søby jhs...@gmail.com: The only reason I can see for not allowing embedding is that embedding would be promoting YouTube Embedding YouTube videos in Wikimedia content would send IP