>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 bandwidth & arbitrary encode >quality settings. Why can we not do server-side transcoding to derive a few files (ie 3 levels of quality, plus an animated gif thumbnail...?) akin to Archive.org? This seems to work nicely for them (and me, when I used it). Simply upload your file, and it automatically transcodes the file 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), and ensures that the derived files have a minimal level of quality (ie no transoding mistakes, which is easy to do if you don't know what you're doing), saves the user time and energy, and also automates a repetitive task. If we're asking users to upload several sizes of a video because we can't "thumbnail" while streaming it then instead of making them transcode it a bunch of times so there are a few sizes of the file, WMF servers can do it. Incidentally, archive.org required me to transfer the file via FTP, which would also be /very/ nice to allow on WMF servers. Cheers, Mike ---- Mike.lifeguard mikelifegu...@fastmail.fm
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