On Jun 9, 2014, at 5:53 PM, Brian Wolff <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 6/9/14, Ori Livneh <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 2:31 AM, Gilles Dubuc <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Can this wait a few weeks? We were intending to move onto UploadWizard
>>> TMH
>>> and similar unloved projects after Media Viewer's launch to all users.
>>> We're in the middle of the launch at the moment, which is using all our
>>> team's resources and then some.
>>>
>>
>> Ping!
>>
>
> Just my personal POV: I'm not sure what discussions have been had
> between kultura. However its been said that there's going to be a "new
> video player" javascript landing in TMH at some point (When is
> unclear. People have told me that a patch was going to land in gerrit
> "any day now" back in January. Now apparently its in "Q4"). Its
> unclear (at least to me) what the extent of this new player is, and
> how much of the TMH js it will replace, but I'd personally be hesitant
> to start working on JS cleanup of the extension (or any major
> non-critical js work) if its just going to be replaced shortly.
>
> --bawolff
>
The "new player” is in the same upstream location as before:
https://github.com/kaltura/mwEmbed. TMH shares the player modules with the
“mwEmbed” so anything inside there would potentially be shared / updated and
not befit from JS refactor that was not aligned with upstream.
I agree this has not gotten the priority it needs, and has dove tailed into a
much longer cycle then ideal. The momentum was hurt by the rejection of
supporting interoperable video formats, and with it the potential for braoder
usage along with the primary core multimedia team focus on Media Viewer.
But …
Brion V's efforts on software based codecs have been pretty amazing, and the
fact iOS8 will support OpenGL also give new hope for that approach.
Also bawolff has been doing some great work on the THM extension which we can
be better about reviewing and merging.
—michael
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