On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 9:42 AM, Brion Vibber <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 2:33 AM, Magnus Manske < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> The Apple Lossless Audio Codec has been released under Apache license 2.0: >> http://alac.macosforge.org/trac/wiki >> >> Something to add to the Commons file format portfolio? Do we support >> FLAC already? >> > > I think that puts FLAC and Apple Lossless in pretty much the same boat: we > probably ought to allow upload in those formats as nice lossless source > material, but it'd be nice if we can consistently automatically transcode > them to something that plays consistently in browsers at suitable > live-download bitrates. (Ogg Vorbis and, in a world with slightly less > patent madness, MP3.) > I went ahead and tossed in Bugzilla entries for these: FLAC: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32103 Apple Lossless: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32104 That TimedMediaHandler extension needs to get finished up and deployed or we're going to miss all this format fun. :) There's also an older bug entry requesting support for WAV and AIFF uploads with automatic transcoding *to* FLAC (as an archival format, I think): https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20252 Certainly accepting .wav input would be handy at times; .wav transcode *output* may also be useful for short audio clips on mobile (MP3 is also very widely supported, but patents blah bla). -- brion _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
