Re: [Wikivideo-l] Fwd: license needed for hosting ProRes files?
I would interpret developing as meaning creating a computer program that can read/write ProRes files, and their response as being you don't need a license on Mac OS X, as decoder/encoder is already available on that platform via a library. In other words, nothing to do with your question ;) But, I really don't think Apple would have any reasonable grounds to stop people distributing files in that format even if they wanted to [IANAL], and even if they did have grounds, it would probably be politically a very bad move for them to do so. --bawolff On 12/3/14, Sebastiaan ter Burg terb...@wikimedia.nl wrote: Wow, it took them over 3 months to *not *answer my question. But, as I am developing on Mac OS X, it looks like there's nothing holding us back to host ProRes files. Now who has a huge server to spare? -- Forwarded message -- From: Apple ProRes Program Office pro...@apple.com Date: 2014-12-03 22:26 GMT+01:00 Subject: Re: license needed for hosting ProRes files? To: Sebastiaan ter Burg terb...@wikimedia.nl Dear Sebastiaan, Thank you for your patience. We have been inundated with ProRes requests. If you are developing on Mac OS X, no ProRes license is needed as it is available on our platform. *General Reference Documents* Authorized Apple ProRes List http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5959 Apple ProRes White Paper, June 2014 http://images.apple.com/final-cut-pro/docs/Apple_ProRes_White_Paper.pdf Best, - Apple ProRes Program Office. === On Aug 21, 2014, at 7:07 AM, Sebastiaan ter Burg terb...@wikimedia.nl wrote: Dear Sir/Madam, Wikimedia Nederland is researching the options to set up a publicly available file server for uncompressed video footage. This would be a ftp server or a similar service. The uncompressed footage will not be played back by the server. For playback the files are client-sided - by the uploader - compressed to smaller and open formats (WebM of OGV) and uploaded separately. Questions: 1. Under the conditions mentioned above, would it be possible to use ProRes as a/the codec to share the uncompressed footage? 2. Is a license needed to share ProRes files? 3. If so, are there solution where this be done without a license? 4. Does the hardware and software of the server affect above? With kind regards, Sebastiaan ter Burg -- Sebastiaan ter Burg *Projectleader Cultural Cooperation* *Wikimedia Nederland* tel.: +31 30 32 00 238 gsm: +31 6 480 88 615 e-mail: terb...@wikimedia.nl wiki: Ter-burg https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gebruiker:Ter-burg www: www.wikimedia.nl wiki: nl.wikimedia.org *Postadres*:* Bezoekadres:* Postbus 167 Mariaplaats 3 3500 AD Utrecht Utrecht -- Sebastiaan ter Burg *Projectleider Culturele Samenwerking* *Wikimedia Nederland* tel.: +31 30 32 00 238 gsm: +31 6 480 88 615 e-mail: terb...@wikimedia.nl wiki: Ter-burg https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gebruiker:Ter-burg www: www.wikimedia.nl wiki: nl.wikimedia.org *Postadres*:* Bezoekadres:* Postbus 167 Mariaplaats 3 3500 AD Utrecht Utrecht -- -- - Brian Caution: The mass of this product contains the energy equivalent of 85 million tons of TNT per net ounce of weight. ___ Wikivideo-l mailing list Wikivideo-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikivideo-l
Re: [Wikivideo-l] Some problem of TimedText namespace
On Dec 4, 2014 9:27 PM, Shun Fukuzawa yuki...@gmail.com wrote: Hi guys, I made Japanese subtitle for the movie on commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/TimedText:Knowledge_for_Everyone_(no_subtitles).webm.ja.srt But I encountered 2 problems. * This namespace ignores templates. So I can't put the license template to it. This template is not appeared on the movie. * It ignores also line breaks of subtitle. Especially, Japanese sentences don't have spaces for reading, so it's hard for audience to understand it immediately. Anyone has a solution to this? Thanks, ___ Wikivideo-l mailing list Wikivideo-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikivideo-l Hmm ive previously used templates and they have worked, you just have to be careful that the expanded text still looks like an srt file. For line breaks, try using br wherever you want a break, maybe. --bawolff ___ Wikivideo-l mailing list Wikivideo-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikivideo-l
Re: [Wikivideo-l] Best practices for identifying video in Wikipedia/Commons?
On Dec 5, 2014 12:09 PM, Jan Ainali jan.ain...@wikimedia.se wrote: When structured data on Commons is live, this will be quite easy (allowing time for media to be tagged also). If you are looking for a solution that works now I do not have any better ideas. Med vänliga hälsningar, Jan Ainali Verksamhetschef, Wikimedia Sverige 0729 - 67 29 48 Tänk dig en värld där varje människa har fri tillgång till mänsklighetens samlade kunskap. Det är det vi gör. Bli medlem. 2014-12-05 16:24 GMT+01:00 Andrew Lih and...@andrewlih.com: I'm wondering what people have found to be the best practices for identifying video in Wikipedia articles. A number of issues: - One of the problems is the OGG is a container, so simply parsing article Wikimarkup may not be sufficient to identify video content. - You can go by category, but this is not always fully accurate - Are GIFs that are animated considered video? Some are, and some aren't. Interested in hearing what people think, or whether we have a taxonomy of video types that are well defined. -Andrew Are you looking for a list of articles with videos? We can probably do that now with a db query (there may be a small number of false negatives on the ogg front, but probably 98% of them can be identified from db. Gifs present a complicating factor but probably still do-able.). --bawolff ___ Wikivideo-l mailing list Wikivideo-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikivideo-l
Re: [Wikivideo-l] Best practices for identifying video in Wikipedia/Commons?
On 12/10/14, Andrew Lih and...@andrewlih.com wrote: Brian, there were some interesting results in the data you filtered from the database. The good news is that it syncs quite well with the data we had from January 2013, in terms of ogg, ogv and webm. A few notes: 1. These are the most popular Commons videos in en.wp. Pretty much the same as January 2013 except for #2, where someone really wanted to embed that Reagan Speech in a lot of places. Commercial-LBJ1964ElectionAdDaisyGirl.ogv 13 Reagan Speech Beirut Bombing.ogv 12 Machinima sample reindeer full size.ogg 9 1946-10-08 21 Nazi Chiefs Guilty.ogv 9 SeaSnails.ogg 8 Shakinghands high.OGG 7 The Impact Of Wikipedia.webm 6 CollateralMurder.ogv 6 1946-07-15 Philippines Independence Proclaimed.ogv 6 2. These are the most popular long GIFs on Commons, used in en.wp: EC-EU-enlargement animation.gif 53 Linguistic map Southwestern Europe.gif 18 Canada provinces evolution 2.gif 12 Pangea animation 03.gif 11 Mohammad adil-Rashidun empire-slide.gif 10 3. We may have to tweak the GIF filter. For some reason, it picked up some odd results like classifying these LOCAL en.wp Mexico-related stub GIF icons as video. The metadata page does not suggest they should be seen as long animations. The files are, from the table listing: Mx-actor.gif 275 Mx-singer.gif 49 Mx-actor.gif, Mx-singer.gif 43 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mx-actor.gif -Andrew According to the metadata, Mx-actor.gif is an animated gif consisting of 1 frame that's shown for 10 seconds... Which is odd. I've excluding all animated GIFs that are only a single frame long. This report should automatically update once a week on tuesdays at roughly 7am UTC. One thing I should note about that report is that the columns will get cut off if they exceed 4096 characters. I also created a second report for videos on commons that are used on any wiki in any namespace. Its at https://tools.wmflabs.org/bawolff/usedVideosCommons.htm (The query for this report is actually a lot more efficient than the query of the other one. This suggests that if performance ever became an issue, the other query could probably be optimized, but I don't see it being an issue.) That report is updated every Wednesday at about 7am, Cheers, --bawolff p.s. The regan videos being everywhere is amusing. ___ Wikivideo-l mailing list Wikivideo-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikivideo-l
Re: [Wikivideo-l] Best practices for identifying video in Wikipedia/Commons?
On 1/22/15, Jesse de Vos jd...@beeldengeluid.nl wrote: Hi all, Interesting statistics, would it be possible to generate these for other language versions as well? Which language are you interested in? Here it is for nl: https://tools.wmflabs.org/bawolff/usedVideosNl.htm Wikimedia Netherlands held its new years gathering at the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, a great opportunity to generate buzz around video on Wikipedia. Some Wikipedians indicated that they would be interested in picking up the challenge of adding more video on Wikipedia. So I am setting up a projectpage (much like the English WP:video https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Videos and WP:Wiki makes video https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Wiki_Makes_Video on which we can share knowledge about the production, transcoding and use of video. I would like to generate a list of Commons categories containing video, but the search function doesn't allow me to make such a list. Does anyone have a suggestion how to proceed? This is actually a surprisingly fast sql query (under 1 minute): https://tools.wmflabs.org/bawolff/categoryVid.htm Let me know if those are what you need. Cheers, Bawolff ___ Wikivideo-l mailing list Wikivideo-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikivideo-l
