On 04/25/2011 03:25 AM, Martin Landa wrote: > Hi all, > > I would like to allow uploading recorded desktop sessions to our > Mediawiki as embedded files in wiki pages. > > I found recordMyDesktop [1] as a good choice for recording sessions. > This software produces OGV file [2]. > > At this point I have problem to find suitable mediawiki extension > which would enable embed OGV file into wiki pages. I found > TimedMediaHandler [3], see demo page [4] which is quite working. > Unfortunately it requires Mediawiki version 1.17. We are using stable > 1.16. Would be acceptable for you to switch to 1.17 (well, wikipedia > ignores stable versions without any problems [5]). Or could you > suggest at this point another solution? Any experience with that? > > Thanks in advance, Martin > > [1] http://recordmydesktop.sourceforge.net/about.php > [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogv > [3] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:TimedMediaHandler > [4] http://prototype.wikimedia.org/timedmedia/Main_Page > [5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Version > > -- > Martin Landa <landa.martin gmail.com> * http://geo.fsv.cvut.cz/~landa
Uploading videos can be problematic in all sorts of ways. My suggestion is to take advantage of 3rd party video hosting options (ex: vimeo) and then using their embed methods to include them in pages. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:EmbedVideo Enjoy, Alex _______________________________________________ grass-user mailing list grass-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user