On Jan 19, 2009, at 21:35, Michael Dale <md...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> 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) meeting > we > discussed adding support for uploading _while_ transcoding to > firefogg. > Also we will talked about supporting splitting the encoded file every > meg or so and re-assembling them on the server. This way if your > browser http POST connection gets reset halfway though your upload it > will just resume on the next chunk instead of starting from scratch. Ooooh that'd be awesome! > (eventually we could support the > http://code.google.com/p/gears/wiki/ResumableHttpRequestsProposal ) > > We also discussed adding dirac support to firefogg... Other related > stuff was discussed...I will try and do a full wikimedia related > report > back from FOMS shortly. Dirac would be cool in a future-facing way; right now there's not the player support we'd really want. One way or another we definitely need to plan for handling high- quality source material as well as the lower-size/quality/bitrate files we're pumping out today. > > > To further respond to Mike.lifeguard inquiry: > > If people can operate an FTP and have the massive bandwidth > necessary to > upload source material I highly recommend they upload to > archive.org. We > will be supporting archive.org as a remote repository so it will be > easy > to embed any ogg piece from there into a wikipedia article see: > http://metavid.org/blog/2008/12/08/archiveorg-ogg-support/ > > I don't think wikimedia is targeting (in the immediate future) the > multi-petabyte storage and multi-thousand cpu system necessary to > store > and transcode original DV and MPEG2 streams of everything. I think it > makes sense to partner with like minded organizations for this > purpose. They're good buds of ours and I totally agree with this. :) - brion > > > peace, > --michael > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
