[Commons-l] OggSearch: Search in Ogg files

Oldak Quill oldakquill at gmail.com
Tue Feb 5 19:11:09 UTC 2008


On 31/01/2008, Brianna Laugher <brianna.laugher at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 31/01/2008, Bryan Tong Minh <bryan.tongminh at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Some days ago I was looking for video files on Commons. I then noticed
> > Commons not only lacked a proper image search, but does not have
> > anything to search specifically for video and audio. So I created one:
> >
> > http://tools.wikimedia.org/~bryan/ogg/
> >
> > It allows searching in video and audio files, by length, y category,
> > by resolution and by audio format. It embeds Wikimedia's ogg player,
> > so you can directly view the videos in your web browser.
>
> Well, in theory there is Mayflower's advanced search
> http://tools.wikimedia.de/~tangotango/mayflower/search.php?q=rockets&ic=&ec=&ft=aud&sc=gt&sv=&ds=&t=n&z=30&a=0
> but it has "a terrible error"
> and MediaSearch
> http://tools.wikimedia.de/~daniel/WikiSense/MediaSearch.php has a "500
> internal error"
> :(
> how is it OggSearch is not dead?
>
> of course, neither of them do quite the same thing as OggSearch.
>
> Some comments:
> 1) Cool logo, intro and interface generally - nice and clean.

Wow, I love the interface: simple and easy-to-use. Thanks for developing this.

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Oldak Quill (oldakquill at gmail.com)



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