Cool (: The video for English Wikipedis's upcoming 5,000,000 article milestone will be in vp9.
Pine On Sep 16, 2015 10:13 AM, "Brion Vibber" <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks to Giuseppe in ops & a bunch of other folks who have helped out, > we've got an updated server configuration for the 'video scalers' that > generate media transcodes, supporting VP9 video and Opus audio. > > Initially we have one server updated and in production, and the rest > should follow by tomorrow. (Updated servers are also in place on the beta > cluster.) > > This should make it possible for WebM files using VP9 video and/or Opus > audio to work as fully first-class citizens in TimedMediaHandler, > generating medium- and low-resolution transcodes in Ogg and WebM VP8. > > It should also fix Ogg audio files using the Opus codec to work > consistently. > > > Support for generating VP9 transcodes as well is in the code and just > needs to be switched on -- I'll tweak that configuration once we've got the > rest of the servers upgraded and have more capacity for batch runs. > > (I've got a client-side bot which I'll start once that's ready, to force > all the files to generate over time.) > > -- brion > > _______________________________________________ > Multimedia mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/multimedia > >
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