https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43150
--- Comment #11 from Kelson [Emmanuel Engelhart] <[email protected]> --- Implementing this would certainly be a useful new feature for end users. Unfortunately, if we do this, we will have to deal with a range of new problems: * We work to encourage creation and sharing of free content. This works well with "free/open formats". If we start to support "priopriatery formats", we will somehow fail to encourage the free/open one. * We wouldn't store the original file anymore. This would be a switch in the Media handling approach and my feeling: this stinks. * If we support "propriatery format/codec", we will have to store a re-encoded version of this file (as original file) and for this reason we will systematicaly loose in quality. * Maintenance work will grow. Assuming, we simply use the ffmpeg, this should be relatively easy to maintain. But, if for some reason, ffmpeg has some "legal problems" with "propriatery formats", then we will be impacted too. All in one, I'm not convinced at all that this would be a good move. IMO, instead of supporting propriatery technologies, we should continue to improve our documentation, help if we can to improve free tools like for example Firefogg. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
