2011/2/10 Samuel Klein <meta.sj(a)gmail.com>om>:
OCW wants a failproof way to instruct people to set up
their browsers
so that our media player works. Of the MIT staff who tried it, 3 of 10
had problems until they installed another browser or fiddled
around.(!)
Use Flash video. *ducks*
The state of open video support is still pretty sad. As great as
Google's embrace of WebM will be in the long run, right now it means
fragmented support for two different open formats. Firefox plays
Theora out of the box (although there are still some ugly bugs that
won't be fixed until FF4), Chrome has nominal support for Theora but
for me it's been broken for a long time, and I've heard the same from
others. IE is IE, they're just starting to support that crazy SVG
thing in IE9. For video, they're betting on proprietary H264 for now -
no surprises there.
There's hope that Adobe will support WebM in Flash which would give us
wide WebM platform coverage. But, we don't even support WebM uploads
yet, let alone transcoding. The only full-time resource we have
working on this stuff is Michael Dale -- we've been lobbying Google to
help with MediaWiki support, we'll see whether that comes to
something.
The best you can do for now is recommend people install Firefox (you
may want to use the beta for the best experience).
--
Erik Möller
Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation
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