Last year's videos totalled how many Gigabytes? On Thursday, August 29, 2013, Philippe Beaudette wrote:
> It seems as though we have this conversation every year. :-) > > If someone provides the WMF with a hard drive, we have usually arranged > for the videos to be directly uploaded at the data center, bypassing any > FTP madness. I presume ops would be willing to do so again. > > PB > ————————— > Philippe Beaudette > Director, Community Advocacy > Wikimedia Foundation, Inc > > > > On Aug 28, 2013, at 6:12 PM, Nkansah Rexford <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Does it mean those 10s of Gigs are all gonna be uploaded to the FTP > server? As the end user, do I *really *need those huge chunks of video? > The question will be, what for? > > A bit of consideration should be taken into care. End viewers of the video > should at least be taken into consideration, thus not going in for an > overkill option. > > I'm wondering who will dedicate 10+Gig of his data plan to watch an hour > video of Wikimania in HDV. > > If the end user needs a SD quality of video, why use HDV to record? I'm > sure HDV isn't used because its the latest technology or something of that > sort. > > Steeply stripping down from those huge files to something plausible within > 6 hours, I don't think is beyond reach. > > Production houses get their final videos somewhere 50Gig+ per hour (some > reaching over 100Gig per hour for animations). But these videos reach the > viewers somewhere around 700mb, but lose in quality is highly and > relatively negligible. > > The tools are there, systems are in place. If there's a will, there's a > way! If only Wikimania wants it to work, the way to do that is available. > > On Wednesday, August 28, 2013, Daniel Schwen wrote: > > Yeah, while it would be nice to have the raw video I think you may > have a wrong idea here. > HDV video has about 10GB per hour. > 8 parallel sessions > 4.5h per day per session > 3 days (last day a bit shorter) > > With that I get about one TB of raw video data. > Good luck uploading that to an FTP server... > > Also, getting the data off of various cams takes a lot of time. I > don't see how they could have done it in time to hand it to > participants. > Daniel > > On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 4:31 PM, Nkansah Rexford > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Sharing videos are so important. This is what I suggest. > > > > At the end of the wikimania, all videos shot (even if up to 15+ Gig) > should > > be available for any attendee to copy onto their external hard drive or > > personal computer to take along to his/her originating country. At their > > home countries, they can share those videos directly also with their > > wikimedian friends who couldn't make it to the event. > > > > Like myself, I could have gotten the videos easily from Sandister, which > > will be less costly, convenient, and faster to get instead of > downloading or > > watching online. > > > > I don't know of data costs in other parts of the world, but from where I > am, > > downloading/watching online videos really cost. Plus, the down streaming > > speed isn't good. > > > > Summary: Make all recorded videos available at the end of the event for > > anyone interested to copy (perhaps in an intranet) before person returns > to > > their countries. Sharing of the videos should be decentralized. > > > > rexford > > > > > > On Wednesday, August 28, 2013, Michael Peel wrote: > >> > >> Hi Deryck, > >> > >> It's great to hear that the parallel sessions were recorded. :-) As a > >> suggestion: those that are asking for these videos might also be > willing to > >> help edit and upload those videos to Commons. Would you be willing to > share > >> the raw recordings with interested individuals so that they could do so? > >> > >> Thanks, > >> Mike > >> (who is not volunteering edit video recordings here! Although I can > >> provide some FTP storage for video files if that would be useful.) > >> > >> On 28 Aug 2013, at 22:08, Deryck Chan <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> > All the sessions held in the Jockey Club Auditorium are still > available > >> > on livestream: > >> > http://new.livestream.com/socreclive/wikimania > >> > > >> > The other sessions have been recorded but will take some time to be > >> > uploaded. (Expect this to take a few months based on past experience > - we > >> > only have volunteers!) > >> > > >> > > >> > On 28 August 2013 18:18, Quiddity <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > Nkansah Rexford wrote: > >> > Please, can I get a link to watch some of the WMHK videos online? Or > >> > they're not yet out? > >> > > >> > rex > >> > > -- +Rexford <https://plus.google.com/107174506890941499078> | +CG Central<https://plus.google.com/b/103109918657638322478/103109918657638322478/posts> | +233 266 811 165 l BFCT<http://www.blendernetwork.org/member/nkansah-rexford-nyarko/> | Wikimedian <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Nkansahrexford>
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