I wrote a PHP class to specifically deal with the Wikimedia OAuth, including uploads (not chunked though). May be helpful.
https://bitbucket.org/magnusmanske/magnustools/src/9dc80c2479a41239b9661b35504dcaaaedf367f7/public_html/php/oauth.php?at=master On Wed Feb 04 2015 at 09:29:28 Nkansah Rexford <seanmav...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for all the ideas and suggestions. Will start with enabling oauth > right away. > > I'm dead in php so I always look for python related hooks. I think this > will do for the oauth? http://pythonhosted.org/mwoauth/ > > As regards the conversion to webm instead of ogv, I tried but couldn't get > avconv to process files into the webm format. Perhaps I'm not putting > things together right. Will read more on that. > > Its very interesting for me to know similar tools exist in the system. I > wish a tool like https://tools.wmflabs.org/videoconvert/ was listed on the > ways to upload videos on commons page. I would have used it right away. > > Really appreciate all your thoughts. With MediaWiki I wish I was a bit good > in php. Thus I always look around for python related packages to interact > with the API. But with the oauth module found, I think authentication won't > be the 'crude' way I'm doing it now. > > Will reach out to 'real' users on VP soon too. > Hi, > > there is the tool by Holger which does that using WebM - but it is > hosted on WMF Labs. It uses OAuth for unified login and moving the files > to Commons. > > Then, a more elaborate tool for > * storing raw material at the Internet Archive > * generating patent free WebM proxy clips for editing > * rendering high-quality videos > * moving these rendered videos to Commons directly > > is the Video Editing Server, developed by some Wikipedians and a MLT > developer, hosted by the Internet Archive: > > https://wikimedia.meltvideo.com/ > > It also uses OAuth for login and moving files to Commons. > > The workflow with this: > > # upload all your raw files to the server for > ## long-term storage > ## to make them available to other editors > ## to let the server use them in the rendering process > > # the server transcodes all files into WebM "proxy clips" > > # editors download the WebM proxy clips > ## do the editing on your computer > ## create an MLT project file (eg. using kdenlive or another MLT-based > video editor) > > # upload the project file > ## server will replace proxy clips with raw material > ## server will render video project > ## server will move generated file to Commons > > It comes with a search engine, meta data forms... it's still pretty new > (development started in December '14) but can be used. > We plan to add some more features like tagging using Wikidata QIDs > (hence allowing multilingual / localised tagging / searching, adding > more project file formats and renderer, making old project file > revisions available for download, give it a nice vector-based theme, > give it a better domain name and SSL certificate... > > Play with it and have fun! > > For source code or any issues refer to GitHub: > https://github.com/ddennedy/wikimedia-video-editing-server > > also there see the wiki for the specs and a deployment guide: > https://github.com/ddennedy/wikimedia-video-editing-server/wiki > > > /Manuel > -- > Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens > Lausanne, +41 (21) 34066-22 - www.wikimedia.ch > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
