On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 10:12 AM, Kat Walsh <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 9:57 AM, David Gerard<[email protected]> wrote: > > 2009/8/1 Brian <[email protected]>: > > > >> I think you vastly underestimate the amount of video that will be > uploaded. > >> Michael is right in thinking big and thinking distributed. CPU cycles > are > >> not *that* cheap. There is a lot of free video out there and as soon as > we > >> have a stable system in place wikimedians are going to have a heyday > >> uploading it to Commons. > > > > > > Oh hell yes. If I could just upload any AVI or MPEG4 straight off a > > camera, you bet I would. Just imagine what people who've never heard > > the word "Theora" will do. > > Even if so, I don't think assuming that every single commons upload at > the current rate will instead be a 15-minute video is much of an > underestimate... > > -Kat > A reasonable estimate would require knowledge of how much free video can be automatically acquired, it's metadata automatically parsed and then automatically uploaded to commons. I am aware of some massive archives of free content video. Current estimates based on images do not necessarily apply to video, especially as we are just entering a video-aware era of the internet. At any rate, while Gerard's estimate is a bit optimistic in my view, it seems realistic for the near term. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
