On 06/04/2011 06:43 PM, David Gerard wrote:
A question that wasn't clear from reading the bug: why is reading a
file format (WebM) blocked on the entire Timed Media Handler?
It would be complicated to support WebM without an improved player and
transcoding support. All the IE users for example
A nice script to download YouTube videos is youtube-dl[1]. Link that with a
flv/mp4 - ogg converter and an uploader to Commons is trivial.
[1] http://rg3.github.com/youtube-dl/
2011/6/4 Michael Dale md...@wikimedia.org
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On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 4:51 PM, Brion Vibber
On 4 June 2011 17:47, Michael Dale md...@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 4:51 PM, Brion Vibber br...@pobox.com wrote:
There's been some ongoing work on TimedMediaHandler extension which will
replace the older OggHandler
Yes, been hammering away on associated bugs. People can help
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
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Aryeh Gregor
simetrical+wikil...@gmail.com wrote:
Embedding YouTube videos in Wikimedia content would send IP addresses
and other information about Wikimedia users to Google. This is
against Wikimedia's privacy policy, as I understand it, and it would
certainly
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
(I'm not sure offhand if I'm set up to cross-post to Foundation-l; if this
doesn't make it, somebody please CC a mention if necessary. Thanks!)
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 4:42 PM, aude aude.w...@gmail.com wrote:
Aside from the very real privacy issue, YouTube videos can disappear at any
time. I
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A youtube2commons script is pretty
