On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 5:19 PM, Brian Wolff <[email protected]> wrote: > On Feb 3, 2015 8:43 PM, "Nkansah Rexford" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I couldn't find a tool to convert my videos from whatever format into .ogv >> outside my PC box before pushing to Commons. I guess there might exist >> something like that, but perhaps I can't find it. But I made one for >> myself. Maybe it might be useful to others too. >> >> I call it CommonsConvert. Upload any video format, enter username and >> password, and get the video converted into .ogv format plus pushed to >> Commons all in one shot. You upload the original video in whatever format, >> and get it on Commons in .ogv >> >> Some rough edges currently, such as can't/don't know/no available means to >> append license to uploaded video among other issues. Working on the ones I >> can asap. >> >> It uses mwclient module via Django based on Python. Django gives user info >> to Python, Python calls avconv in a subprocess, and the converted file is >> relayed to Commons via mwclient module via Media Wiki API. >> >> I think not everyone has means/technical know how/interest/time converting >> videos taken on their PC to an Ogg-Vorbis-whatever format before > uploading >> to Commons. >> >> Doing the conversion on a server leaves room for user to focus on getting >> videos than processing them. >> >> I don't know if this is or will be of any interest that someone might > wanna >> use, but I personally would enjoy having a server sitting somewhere > convert >> my videos I want to save onto Commons, than using my local computer doing >> that boring task. >> >> In an email to this list a week or so ago, I 'ranted' about why commons >> wants a specific format (which if not for commons, I never come across > that >> format anywhere), but has no provision for converting any videos thrown at >> it into that format of its choice. Well.... >> >> Tool can be found here: khophi.co <http://khophi.co/commonsconvert>/ >> <http://khophi.co/commonsconvert>commonsconvert >> <http://khophi.co/commonsconvert> >> >> And this is sample video uploaded using the tool. >> https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Testing_file_for_upload_last.ogv >> (will be deleted soon, likely) >> >> What I do not know or have not experimented yet is whether uploading using >> the api also has the 100mb upload restriction. >> >> Will appreciate feedback. >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikitech-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > Cool. Thanks for working on this sort of thing. The uploading videos > process certainly benefit from some love. > > May i suggest using webm (of the vorbis/vp8 variety) as the output format? > Webm will give higher quality videos at lower file size, so is probably a > better choice if converting from another format. > > For the 100mb thing - there are multiple ways to upload things with the > api. The chunked method has a file size limit of 1gb. All the other methods > have the 100mb limit. See https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Chunked_uploads for more information.
> > If you havent already, id encourage mentioning this on [[Commons:VP]]. > "Real" users would probably be able to give much more specific feedback. > > Cheers, > Bawolff > > P.s. im not sure, but i think user:Prolineserver might have been working on > something similar, in case you are looking for collaborators. That's https://tools.wmflabs.org/videoconvert/ - seems to be down right now, but usually it works very well for converting to WebM, and can also upload the result directly to Commons using OAuth. It's just not very fast (can take several hours to generate a 200MB WebM). Results: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Uploaded_with_videoconvert -- Tilman Bayer Senior Analyst Wikimedia Foundation IRC (Freenode): HaeB _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
