On 10/1/07, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
(What's the US patent exposure from having an
MPEG-to-Theora converter
on Wikimedia servers? Would running one on the toolserver be safe
enough?)
I think that even better would be a client local transcoder which uses
the client installed codecs: then it becomes "if you can play it in
WindowsMedia, you can upload it using this tool" ... Gets us out of
the business of tracking the codec dejure and is useful for people who
want to do things other than preparing files for us.
This is pretty much already possible within the QT framework with
XiphQT (
http://xiph.org/quicktime/) ... any video app that uses QT
codecs can just directly save Ogg/Theora+Vorbis files.