-----Original Message----- From: commons-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:commons-l- bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Gregory Maxwell Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 12:03 AM To: Wikimedia Commons Discussion List Subject: [Commons-l] New Java audio player, now with video. Greetings. Tonight I setup a test version of a new Java based install-free player for our Ogg files. Unlike the prior version it also supports Ogg/Theora Video. It also should improve compatibility with some Java implementations such as the old Microsoft JVM, and it should have working buffering which should make it useful for people with slow or intermittent links where the prior player was not. I was planning on testing it out for a few days before taking it live, but the database feel over on toolserver which broke the old player anyways. The new player setup is a little more robust against database failures. We still have a server problem which causes large media files to get stuck in the cache as zero byte files. If a particular file doesn't play for you, it's very likely that the file has been hit with this caching bug. This is a long standing bug, but we know the general cause now. It just is not fixed yet. Here is a video example: http://tools.wikimedia.de/~gmaxwell/jorbis/commonsJOrbisPlayer2.php?path=V ibraphone_Orchestra,_early_1940s.ogg See, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Video for more. Unfortunately most do not yet have a template which provides a direct link to the player. Here is an audio only example: http://tools.wikimedia.de/~gmaxwell/jorbis/commonsJOrbisPlayer.php?path=Sc arborough+Fair.ogg&wiki=en Feedback is appreciated.

On 3/7/07, Cary Bass <bastique(a)bastique.com> wrote: The image server (amane) is seriously overloaded. Our squids do not cache files over 600KBytes, so when amane suffers video and audio become mostly useless. I have solved this for the in-browser player by setting up a seperate squid which is only used by the in browser player. I've preloaded it with all of our videos and the most popular audio. Performance should now be very good. I wanted something with sound. :) I've fully populated http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Video and every video has a play in browser link. We only have about 600 videos on commons, so there is still plenty of room to grow. :) A lot of our videos aren't even used in the projects, even though there are interesting and informative.. like http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Pop-o-matic_video.ogg _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list Commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l

Unfortunately, the player causes serious problems under Mac OS 10.4.8. Safari 2.0.4 either crashes when playing or reports that Java is unavailable (it's installed and enabled, so something's wrong there), while other browsers like Camino show other weird problems (where the Java player causes the entire window -- or large portions of it -- to appear as garbage, even after changing or closing tabs).

On 07/03/07, David Still <daveydweeb(a)gmail.com> wrote: The earlier vibraphone video worked fine for me on our G4 earlier on Safari (latest Mac OS 10.4, latest Java). Are you using a PowerPC or Intel Mac? - d. _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list Commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l

Brianna Laugher wrote: It happens to me too, *also with Videolan*. Does anyone hear it while the button is pressed?