Re: [Commons-l] [Wiktionary-l] Advice Needed

Well, I guess this should be researched quite well, before investing time in this feature: WAV WAVEform audio format <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAV> (WAV) is a Microsoft <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft> and IBM<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM> audio file format <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_format> for storing audio on PCs. It is the main format used on Microsoft Windows<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Windows>systems for raw audio storage. The WAV format is most commonly used with an uncompressed, lossless storage method (pulse-code modulation) resulting in comparatively large audio files. Today, the WAV audio format is no longer popular being superseded by other more efficient means of audio storage. [19]<http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/FOSS_Open_Standards/Comparison_of_File_… from http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/FOSS_Open_Standards/Comparison_of_File_Formats… So who wants "wav" files actually, they are normally very large as well. The legal status is not so obvious. Maybe you even need a lawyer to judge this correctly. Again, is .wav really so popular, that it justifies the effort? All the best, Sebastian Am 10.04.2013 19:40, schrieb Federico Leva (Nemo): Rahul Maliakkal, 10/04/2013 19:27: As we all know right now uploading an audio file is only possible in .ogg format. In my GSOC project , i plan on adding *.wav support* to commons ,since its not patent encumbered i think it should be fine Context: "Pronunciation Recording Extension" https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Rahul21/Gsoc I would like to get the communities feedback on this. Is the reason that the dependencies you found all require this format? Nemo _______________________________________________ Wiktionary-l mailing list Wiktionary-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiktionary-l -- Dipl. Inf. Sebastian Hellmann Department of Computer Science, University of Leipzig Projects: http://nlp2rdf.org , http://linguistics.okfn.org , http://dbpedia.org/Wiktionary , http://dbpedia.org Homepage: http://bis.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/SebastianHellmann Research Group: http://aksw.org