It would appear that about 11% of the Ogg videos on commons aren't Ogg at all, they mostly seem to be renamed AVI and the like...
Is there any reason I shouldn't run through all these and transcode them in mass to Ogg/Theora?
Gregory Maxwell wrote:
It would appear that about 11% of the Ogg videos on commons aren't Ogg at all, they mostly seem to be renamed AVI and the like...
Is there any reason I shouldn't run through all these and transcode them in mass to Ogg/Theora?
So long as there's no reason to doubt the licensing claims, and you can do it with no discernable loss of quality... go for it.