2010/7/11 Gregory Maxwell <[email protected]>: > On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 6:29 AM, Erik Moeller <[email protected]> wrote: >> I am hugely grateful that we have reliable streaming this year, thanks >> to a lot of volunteer effort. Perhaps we can defer the ideological >> nitpicking and just share that appreciation. I would be grateful even >> if it required a Windows-only plugin, which Flash is not. > > I've been working from a non-x86 system the past couple of days. Even > if I wanted to install the proprietary flash software I couldn't. > Since it's perfectly possible to set up streams that don't rely on Flash and can be viewed with open source media players like VLC, I do believe we should aim to do that next year.
> The time delayed uploaded files worked pretty well last year, and I > was able to watch all the presentations I was interested in. This > year I wasn't able to watch a single one. > Last year's system of encoding the videos to OGG overnight and uploading them to Commons the next afternoon was pretty awesome; unfortunately we won't be doing that this year, but the organization have told me (on wikimania-l) that they will obtain the OGGs from the video company on DVD(s), and I have asked them to mail that/those DVD(s) to our datacenter so I can import all videos to Commons when they arrive. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
