Multimedia July 2015

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TMH RL changes
by Derk-Jan Hartman 24 Jul '15

24 Jul '15

I think we all want to ditch TMH sooner than later, but i’ve had this patch to do some cleanup to it for a while now (1,5 year): https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/172421/ <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/172421/> Clearly few people are capable of reviewing it to begin with, and worse I think there are plenty of people so scared of this code, that they’d rather keep it like it is, instead of risking to break production... So should I abandon it ? DJ

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Wikimedia video community editing tools & infrastructure status
by Brion Vibber 20 Jul '15

20 Jul '15

There were a fair number of folks interested in video chatting at Wikimania! A few quick updates: * An experimental 'Schnittserver' ('Clip server') project has been in the works for a while with some funding from ze Germans; currently sitting at http://wikimedia.meltvideo.com/ (uses OAuth, has a temporary SSL cert, UI is very primitive!) It is currently usable already for converting MP4 etc source footage to WebM! The Schnittserver can also do server-side rendering of projects using the 'melt' format such as those created with Kdenlive <https://kdenlive.org/> and Shotcut <http://www.shotcut.org/> -- this allows uploading your original footage (usually in some sort of MP4/H.264 flavor) and sharing the editing project via WebM proxy clips, without generational loss on the final rendering. Once rendered, your final WebM output can be published up to Commons. I would love to see some more support for this project, including adding a better web front-end for managing projects/clips and even editing... * Mozilla has an in-browser media editor thing called Popcorn.js <http://popcornjs.org/>; they're unfortunately reducing investment in the project, but there's some talk amon people working on it and on our end that Wikimedia might be interested in helping adapt it to work with the Schnittserver or some future replacement for it. Unfortunately I missed the session with the person working on Popcorn.js, will have to catch up later on it! * I'm very close to what I consider a 1.0 release of ogv.js <https://github.com/brion/ogv.js/>, my JavaScript shim to play Ogg (and experimentally WebM) video and audio in Safari and MS IE/Edge without plugins. Recently fixed some major sound sync bugs on slower devices, and am finishing up controls which will be used in the mobile view (when not using the full TimedMediaHandler / MwEmbedPlayer interface which we still have on the desktop). Demo of playback at https://brionv.com/misc/ogv.js/demo2/ A slightly older version of ogv.js is also running on https://ogvjs-testing.wmflabs.org/ with integration into TimedMediaHandler; I'll update those patches with my 1.0 release next week or so. * Infrastructure issues: I had a talk with Faidon about video requirements on the low-level infrastructure layer; there are some things we need to work on before we really push video: - seeking/streaming a file with Range subsets causes requests to bypass the Varnish cache layer, potentially causing huge performance problems if there's a usage spike! - very large files can't be sharded cleanly over multiple servers, which makes for further performance bottlenecks on popular files again - VERY large files (>4G or so) can't be stored at all; which is a problem for high-quality uploads of things like long Wikimania talks! For derivative transcodes, we can bypass some of these problems by chunking the output into multiple files of limited length and rigging up 'gapless playback', as can be done for HLS or MPEG-DASH-style live streaming. I'm pretty sure I can work out how to do this in the ogv.js player (for Safari and IE) as well as in the native <video> element playback for Chrome and Firefox via Media Source Extensions <https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Apps/Build/Audio_and_video_delivery/Liv…>. Assuming it works with the standard DASH profile for WebM, this is something we can easily make work on Android as well using Google's ExoPlayer <https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/media/exoplayer.html>. DASH playback will also make it easier to use adaptive source switching to handle limited bandwidth or CPU resources. However we still need to be able to deal with source files which may be potentially quite large... * List and phab projects! As a reminder there's a wikivideo-l list: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikivideo-l and a Wikimedia-Video project tag in phabricator: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/wikimedia-video/ Folks who are interested in pushing further work on video, please feel free to join up. There's a lot of potential awesomeness! -- brion

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Re: [Multimedia] [Wikitech-l] Provide a well-performing API to rotate an image
by Pine W 16 Jul '15

16 Jul '15

Perhaps this should go to Community Tech or Multimedia. Copying to the Multimedia list. Pine On Jul 16, 2015 6:27 AM, "Steinsplitter Wiki" <steinsplitter-wiki(a)live.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I am not sure if this is the correct mailinglist to write. > > Every week on commons a bot is rotating hunderts of files, however this > bot will stop working soon. In the last years tens of thousands files has > been rotated. > > Rotating files is a vital feature on commons and therefore indispensable. > The bugreport [1] on phabricator is open since three years, but, > unfortunately no dev is working on it. The bug has also a lot of +1 > (tokens). > > I am wonder if it is possible to enable and code review this feature asap. > > :-) > > Best, > Steinsplitter > > [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T35186 > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

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Slideshow feature
by Pine W 16 Jul '15

16 Jul '15

Hi Multimedia enthusiasts, Today I added two galleries of my successful FP nominations to my user page. (Can I say again how much I like the gallery feature?) Anyway, on Commons there is this green button in the upper right corner of my user page that starts a slideshow when I click it. The slideshow is like MediaViewer with extra text info about each file, and I like it. A lot. Can we get that little green button to appear on pages on ENWP in addition to Commons? For example, currently the slideshow button is missing from my userpage when I view it on ENWP, and I think having that icon visible on other galleries and articles would be worth trying. Thanks! Pine

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Future Big Data 2015
by conference＠icdim.org 09 Jul '15

09 Jul '15

Call for Workshop Papers First International Workshop on 'Future Big Data' (FBD 2015) In Conjunction with the Tenth International Conference on Digital Information Management (ICDIM 2015) http://icdim.org/bigdata.html Jeju Island, South Korea October 21-23, 2015 Technically co-sponsored by the IEEE Technology Engineering Management Society Accepted workshop papers will be published in the proceedings indexed by IEEE Xplore. About the Workshop Big Data concern large-volume, complex, growing data sets with multiple, autonomous sources. With the fast development of networking, data storage, and the data collection capacity, Big Data are now rapidly expanding in all science and engineering domains, including physical, biological and biomedical sciences. This workshop will address the features of the Big Data revolution, Big Data processing model, data driven modelds, big data standards, and so on. This workshop will analyze the trends in big data and can predict the future big data world. The emerging paradigms in big data including technologies, methods, mechanisms and applications will be treated in the proposed workshop. Submissions Submissions should provide original and unpublished research results or ongoing research with simulations. The papers should be between 6 to 8 pages total in length in the IEEE format. * All the accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE and fully indexed by IEEE Xplore. All the ICDIM papers are indexed by DBLP (http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/icdim/index.html) * Modified version of the selected papers will appear in the special issues of the following peer reviewed and indexed journals. (Indexed in Scopus, Thomson Reuters, Journal Citation Reports, dblp, Engineering Index and many other databases) Important Dates Full Paper Submission August 10, 2015 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection September 10, 2015 Registration Due October 10, 2015 Camera Ready Due October 10, 2015 Workshops/Tutorials/Demos October 22, 2015 Main conference October 21-23, 2015 Organizers Rita Yi Man Li, Hong Kong Shue Yan University, Hong Kong Submissions at http://www.icdim.org/submission.html For additional inquiries, please contact - conference at icdim.org

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Re: [Multimedia] [WikimediaMobile] Mobile MediaViewer and the Seattle Japanese Garden
by Florian Schmidt 07 Jul '15

07 Jul '15

Hi, it's already possible in beta mode (open the left "hamburger" menu, click Settings and activate beta mode). We plan to move this very useful function to stable mode. There is a task and a change for it, see https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T101718 I hope that's what you're looking for :) Best, Florian Sent from my HTC ----- Reply message ----- From: "Pine W" <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> To: "mobile-l" <mobile-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, <Multimedia(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Subject: [WikimediaMobile] Mobile MediaViewer and the Seattle Japanese Garden Date: Mon, Jul 6, 2015 08:51 English Wikipedia's "Seattle Japanese Garden" article looks good in the Android app, and the MediaViewer-like slideshow feature works well for the gallery. However, I'm unable to scroll through the photos in Mobile Web like I csn using the Android app. Are there any plans to add the slideshow functionality to mobile web? Thanks! Pine

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Video for Safari, IE, and Edge: ogv.js 0.9 and TMH patches (please review)
by Brion Vibber 07 Jul '15

07 Jul '15

I've done some more cleanup and fixes on ogv.js JavaScript Ogg media player, with an 0.9 pre-release build and updated patches for TimedMediaHandler. Would love some code review and testing! *Upstream library release:* https://github.com/brion/ogv.js/releases/tag/0.9 *Live demo site:* https://ogvjs-testing.wmflabs.org/ *TMH patches:* Update to bundled ogv.js libs (went ahead and merged): https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/223261/1 Finish the desktop TMH integration of ogv.js player (need testing and review!): https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/165478/36 Work in progress mobile integration for TMH (needs more upstream updates for controls): https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/217485/ -- brion

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ICDIM 2015
by conference＠icdim.org 07 Jul '15

07 Jul '15

Tenth International Conference on Digital Information Management Jeju Island, South Korea October 21-23, 2015 (www.icdim.org) Technically co-sponsored by IEEE Technology Engineering Management Society Proceedings will be indexed in IEEE Xplore Following the successful earlier conferences at Bangalore (2006), Lyon (2007), London (2008), Michigan (2009) , Thunder Bay (2010), Melbourne (2011), Macau (2012), Islamabad (2013) and Thailand (2014) the tenth event is being organized at Jeju Island the Republic of Korea (South Korea) in 2015. The International Conference on Digital Information Management is a multidisciplinary conference on digital information management, science and technology. The principal aim of this conference is to bring people in academia, research laboratories and industry together, and offer a collaborative platform to address the emerging issues and solutions in digital information science and technology. The ICDIM intends to bridge the gap between different areas of digital information management, science and technology. This forum will address a large number of themes and issues. The conference will feature original research and industrial papers on the theory, design and implementation of digital information systems, as well as demonstrations, tutorials, workshops and industrial presentations. The 10th International Conference on Digital Information Management will be held on October 21-23, 2015 at the Jeju Island, Republic of Korea (South Korea). The topics in ICDIM 2015 include but are not confined to the following areas. Information Retrieval Data Grids, Data and Information Quality Big Data Management Temporal and Spatial Databases Data Warehouses and Data Mining Web Mining including Web Intelligence and Web 3.0 E-Learning, eCommerce, e-Business and e-Government Natural Language Processing XML and other extensible languages Web Metrics and its applications Enterprise Computing Semantic Web, Ontologies and Rules Human-Computer Interaction Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support Systems Knowledge Management Ubiquitous Systems Peer to Peer Data Management Interoperability Mobile Data Management Data Models for Production Systems and Services Data Exchange issues and Supply Chain Data Life Cycle in Products and Processes Case Studies on Data Management, Monitoring and Analysis Security and Access Control Information Content Security Mobile, Ad Hoc and Sensor Network Security Distributed information systems Information visualization Web services Quality of Service Issues Multimedia and Interactive Multimedia Image Analysis and Image Processing Video Search and Video Mining Cloud Computing Workshops ICDIM 2015 has the following co-located workshops Fourth Workshop on Emerging Problem- specific Crowdsourcing Technologies Fourth Workshop on Advanced Techniques on Data Analytics and Data Visualization Third IEEE International Workshop on Data Management (IWDM 2015) First Workshop on Internet of Things First Workshop on Big Data Mining First Workshop on Cluster Computing First Workshop on Intelligent Information Systems Proceedings - All the accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE. - All papers will be fully indexed by IEEE Xplore. - All the ICDIM papers are indexed by DBLP. Modified version of the selected papers will appear in the special issues of the following peer reviewed journals. 1. Journal of Digital Information Management (SCOPUs/EI) 2. Journal of Electrical Systems 3. Recent Advances in Electrical & Electronic Engineering 4. International Journal of Web Applications (IJWA) 5. International Journal of Information Technology and Web Engineering (IJITWE) 6. International Journal of Emerging Sciences (IJES) 7. International Journal of Grid and High Performance Computing (IJGHPC) (Scopus and EI Indexed) 8. International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering (Scopus and EI Indexed) 9. International Journal of Big Data Intelligence 10. International Journal of Applied Decision Sciences (Scopus/EI) 11. International Journal of Management and Decision Making (Scopus/EI) 12 International Journal of Strategic Decision Sciences 13. International Journal of Enterprise Information Systems (Scopus/EI Important Dates Full Paper Submission August 10, 2015 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection September 10, 2015 Registration Due October 10, 2015 Camera Ready Due October 10, 2015 Workshops/Tutorials/Demos October 22, 2015 Main conference October 21-23, 2015 2015 Main conference October 15-17, 2015 SUBMISSIONS AT http://www.icdim.org/submission.html Committee General Chair Hanmin Jung, Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information, Korea Ezendu Ariwa, University of Bedfordshire, UK Program Chairs Xu Shuo, ISTIC, China Thomas Mandl, Hildesheim University, Germany Satoshi Tojo, JAIST, Japan Program Co-Chairs Michaela Geierhos, Paderborn University, Germany Ing-Xiang Chen, Ericsson, Tiwan Imran Bajwa Sajwa The Islamia University of Bahawlpur, Pakistan Organizing committee Sa-kwang Song, KISTI, Korea Do-Heon Jeong, KISTI, Korea Seungwoo Lee, KISTI, Korea Young-Guk Ha, Konkuk University, Korea In-Su Kang, Kyungsung Univ. Korea Email: conference at icdim.org SUBMISSIONS AT http://www.icdim.org/submission.html ----------------------------------

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Mobile MediaViewer and the Seattle Japanese Garden
by Pine W 06 Jul '15

06 Jul '15

English Wikipedia's "Seattle Japanese Garden" article looks good in the Android app, and the MediaViewer-like slideshow feature works well for the gallery. However, I'm unable to scroll through the photos in Mobile Web like I csn using the Android app. Are there any plans to add the slideshow functionality to mobile web? Thanks! Pine

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