Congratulations! And thanks for your dedication to the project. You realize when he turns thirteen he's going to die of embarrassment over this...?
On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 7:08 PM, Sage Ross <ragesoss+wikipe...@gmail.com<ragesoss%2bwikipe...@gmail.com> > wrote: > On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 9:12 PM, Steve Bennett <stevag...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 9:38 AM, Sage Ross > > <ragesoss+wikipe...@gmail.com<ragesoss%2bwikipe...@gmail.com>> > 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 <risker...@gmail.com> 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 > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > -- http://durova.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
