Cool, nice talk on Extensions by the way.. I'll keep that in mind!

On 11/07/10 14:50, Roan Kattouw wrote:
> 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)
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