The whole idea is project specific,we are not converting to wav, but since its the only format that browsers can easily upload in for the time being.

Thanks


On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 3:26 AM, Sebastian Hellmann <hellmann@informatik.uni-leipzig.de> wrote:
You didn't include the list in your reply.
What about: http://firefogg.org/ ?
-- Sebastain

Am 10.04.2013 23:41, schrieb Rahul Maliakkal:
The point is not about efficiency rather the only format that browsers can presently capture into. As browsers add support for AAC converting / uploads, then we will prefer that.

Thanks


On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 2:52 AM, Sebastian Hellmann <hellmann@informatik.uni-leipzig.de> wrote:
Well, I guess this should be researched quite well, before investing time in this feature:

WAV

WAVEform audio format (WAV) is a Microsoft and IBM audio file format for storing audio on PCs. It is the main format used on 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 Today, the WAV audio format is no longer popular being superseded by other more efficient means of audio storage.[19]


from http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/FOSS_Open_Standards/Comparison_of_File_Formats#WAV

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

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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
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