On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 1:57 PM, Michael Dale<[email protected]> wrote: > Look back 2 years and you can see the xiph communities blog posts and > conversations with Mozilla. It was not a given that Firefox would ship > with ogg theora baseline video support (they took some convening and had > to do some thinking about it, a big site like wikipedia exclusively > using the free formats technology probably helped their decision). > Originally the xiph/annodex community built the liboggplay library as an > extension. This later became the basis for the library that powers > firefox ogg theora video today. Likewise we are putting features into > firefogg that we eventually hope will be supported by browsers natively. > Also in theory we could put a thin bittorrent client into java Cortado > to support IE users as well. >
If watching video on Wikipedia requires bittorrent, most corporate environments are going to be locked out. If a bittorrent client is loaded by default for the videos, most corporate environments are going to blacklist wikipedia's java apps. I'm not saying p2p distributed video is a bad idea, and the Wikimedia foundation may not care about how corporate environments react; however, I think it is a bad idea to either force users to use a p2p client, or make them opt-out. Ignoring corporate clients... firing up a p2p client on end-user's systems could cause serious issues for some. What if I'm browsing on a 3g network, or a satellite connection where my bandwidth is metered? Maybe this is something that could be delivered via a gadget and enabled in user preferences? V/r, Ryan Lane _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
