On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 10:32 AM, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote: > > It is important to note that WMF itself is not in any way neutral on > this issue: adding MPEG4 is explicitly listed as a 2014 goal for the > Multimedia team. > > That is, it has already been determined that this is *going to happen*. > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/2013-14_Goals#Activities > https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=File:Multimedia_Quarterly_Review_12-03-2013.pdf&page=61
The goals page says "Establish an audio/video codec strategy about licensing codecs like MPEG4" This RFC is part of establishing that strategy. If the answer from this RFC is "no MP4", then whatever strategy we have will work within that constraint. The slide deck was published from a meeting where I can assure you Fabrice said something to the effect of "of course, this all depends on the result of the RFC" :-) I can definitively state that this question of supporting MP4 has not been determined. We will not support MP4 without community consensus. Rob _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
