On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 9:12 PM, Steve Bennett <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 9:38 AM, Sage Ross <[email protected]> > wrote: >> It's not too hard now if you're running Firefox 3.5. Just edit your >> video in whatever video software is easiest on your machine (e.g., >> Windows Movie Maker) and save a high quality version in a convenient >> format (e.g., AVI, MPEG, other common formats), then go firefogg.org, >> install the plug-in, click "make ogg", and use the default encoding >> settings. >> >> If you're feeling especially ambitious, you can add metadata and/or >> fiddle with the resolution and bit-rate settings (all through >> firefogg). Converting to Commons-ready ogg with firefogg is actually >> easier than uploading a file to Commons. > > Hmm, sounds like that would make a good extension to Commonist. >
Firefogg is part of the "add media wizard" that (I think) is being refined for default deployment on Commons. (It's already available if you add a bit of code to your javascript page.) So yeah, sooner or later it will be possible for many users to simply upload their non-free format videos have them seamlessly transcoded. Along the same lines, hopefully Commonist will simply become unnecessary and batch uploads possible without extra software. On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 7:42 PM, Risker <[email protected]> wrote: > See now...when I read Steve's question, I was thinking about the "hard work" > of taking care of the star of the film... All the jokes I thought of in response require too much familiarity with me to be unambiguously non-sexist to WikiEN-l subscribers, so I'll just say... that's how I read the question at first, too. -Sage _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
