So when and who authorised non-free formats?
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Michael Dale <[email protected]> Date: 2 February 2013 16:25 Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Audio derivatives, turning on MP3/AAC & mobile app feature request. To: Wikimedia developers <[email protected]> Cc: Jan Gerber <[email protected]> +correct content-type this time ;) Note this has already been merged, but still worth mention for visibility. On 2/1/13 12:10 PM, Michael Dale wrote: > > We are about to merge in support for audio derivatives to Timed Media Handler > (TMH). The big value here, I think is encoding to AAC or MP3 and adding a > /listen to this article/ feature to the mobile app. > https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/39363/ > > This can really help with improving accessibility of Wiktionary pronunciation > media files as well. > > Also AAC / m4v ingestion, could make audio recordings a lot easier to import > into the site, i.e a "record a reading of this article" mobile app feature #2 > ;) > > There are already thousands of spoken articles, with some promotion their > could probably be a lot be more: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Spoken_articles > > The software patent situation for mp3 is sad, considering how long the mp3 > format has been around: > http://www.tunequest.org/a-big-list-of-mp3-patents/20070226/ > > I think AAC is a similar situation, encoder wise: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Audio_Coding#Licensing_and_patents > > But fundamentally Wikimedia is not "distributing" these encoders and there > are no royalties for media distribution. Likewise we are not shipping > decoders ( the decoders are in browser or the mobile OS ) > > I don't know why Wikimedia's commitment to being accessible in royalty free > formats, somehow also precludes making content accessible for folks on > platforms that ~don't~ decode royalty free formats. But hopefully we can > change that over time. > > Not sure if this is the right forum for this, but I hope we could come out of > this thread with rough consensus to enable these formats to help increase the > reach of audio works. > > peace, > --michael _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
