Re: [Wikitech-l] [WikimediaMobile] Videos on mobile

2013-06-24 Thread Tomasz Finc
On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 11:23 AM, Arthur Richards wrote: > This sounds like something that might be good for the newly forming > multimedia team to work on This is in the purview new multimedia team that Fabrice will be PM'ing (CC'ing him). I spoke with him today and mentioned this thread. Expec

Re: [Wikitech-l] [WikimediaMobile] Videos on mobile

2013-06-24 Thread Brian Wolff
In regards to "unresolved codec issues", that is more a political/legal than a technical issues. >> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:OggHandler We haven't been using OggHandler for quite some time now (Since November 2012). We now use TimedMediaHandler extension. -bawolff On 6/24/13, A

Re: [Wikitech-l] [WikimediaMobile] Videos on mobile

2013-06-24 Thread Arthur Richards
+wikitech-l On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 11:37 AM, Brion Vibber wrote: > On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 5:35 PM, Max Semenik wrote: > >> Hi, when mobile WP was in its childhood, it was decided that we're not >> ready to display videos on our pages, so they were stripped. And >> stripped very crudely, by rem

Re: [Wikitech-l] [WikimediaMobile] Videos on mobile

2013-06-24 Thread Arthur Richards
+wikitech-l This sounds like something that might be good for the newly forming multimedia team to work on. As Yuvi pointed out (off the wikitech-l list): "There are also unresolved codec issues with playing videos (no H264 support), so even if we do enable video playback it'll not be available e