[Wikitech-l] Transcoding Video Contributions in Mediawiki

2009-01-19 Thread Michael Dale
Mike Baynton asked about some server side transcoding code he has worked on this seems appropriate for wikitech-l so I have cc'ed it here. The current direction is to encourage in-browser client side transcoding. This offloads the costs of server side transcoding and maximizes quality letting

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki developer meet-up in Berlin, April 3-5

2009-01-19 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, Who says that the meet-up at FOSDEM will fail?? With people from the USA, the Netherlands, Finland, Germany and Great Britain arriving with MediaWiki on their mind, it can hardly be called a failed meet up. I am also quite sure that if you want to talk about MediaWiki localisation and

Re: [Wikitech-l] Drafts extension in testing

2009-01-19 Thread Brion Vibber
On 1/17/09 6:44 PM, Jackey Tse wrote: can't save summary? Should work. Does it behave differently to what you expect? -- brion ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Transcoding Video Contributions in Mediawiki

2009-01-19 Thread Mike.lifeguard
The current direction is to encourage in-browser client side transcoding. This offloads the costs of server side transcoding and maximizes quality letting us supply the transcode settings for generating theora files from the HD or DV source. Instead of users uploading intermediary format at low

Re: [Wikitech-l] Transcoding Video Contributions in Mediawiki

2009-01-19 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 11:05 PM, Mike.lifeguard mikelifegu...@fastmail.fm wrote: [snip] into the appropriate derivative files. This is certainly a lot easier than asking the user to do it (most have no sweet clue, and even experienced users are in over their head), You're missing a major

Re: [Wikitech-l] Transcoding Video Contributions in Mediawiki

2009-01-19 Thread Michael Dale
Gregory Maxwell wrote: This does client side transcoding, but as far as the user can tell it's all done by the server except no long transmission time for his 14gbyte DV movie. (although, perhaps a long transcoding time. :) ) At some talks here a FOMS (foundations of open source media)

Re: [Wikitech-l] Client side transcoding with firefogg (early testing)...

2009-01-19 Thread Michael Dale
opps bad url for add_media_wizard try: importScriptURI('http://mvbox2.cse.ucsc.edu/w/extensions/MetavidWiki/skins/add_media_wizard.js'); --michael Michael Dale wrote: While the upload API is under development / stabilization ... I hacked in basic firefogg upload support to the

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki developer meet-up in Berlin, April 3-5

2009-01-19 Thread Daniel Kinzler
Gerard Meijssen schrieb: Hoi, Who says that the meet-up at FOSDEM will fail?? With people from the USA, the Netherlands, Finland, Germany and Great Britain arriving with MediaWiki on their mind, it can hardly be called a failed meet up. I am also quite sure that if you want to talk about