On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 3:47 AM, Laura Hale <[email protected]> wrote: > It would be awesome to see more video, but the technical end really needs to > improve on some level. Ditto with the audio. There was a discussion at one > point about putting a video on the front page of English Wikipedia as a DYK > picture. (HJ Mitchell nominated it I think. The video was from a cartoon > and was public domain.) It ran because the image was in public domain. It > had an outstanding number of views. The problem is yeah... local download > required. I believe even if you resize the file like "200px", the video > itself isn't "resized" so taking a 1000px wide video that is 100megs, > putting it into an article as 200px still requires a 100megs upload.
That is no longer the case. Part of the TimedMediaHandler rollout last year was the added functionality to generate derivatives in multiple resolutions. This gives you a YouTube-style selector when viewing the video which allows you to pick the resolution you'd like to play it in. Moreover, when embedding a video in a tiny pixel size, the player will "pop out" when clicking the video to enable you to actually watch it. https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/11/08/introducing-wikipedias-new-html5-video-player/ -- Erik Möller VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
