On 10/20/15, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Multimedians,
I am trying to lightly edit, convert and upload about 20GB of video from Wikiconference USA. One of the conversion tools suggested to me, https://wikimedia.meltvideo.com/index.php/main, uses a self-signed security certificate that is not trusted by my browser for secure Oauth use. Another tool, the videoconvert tool on Labs, crashes my browser, possibly because it wants to put all of the video batch in RAM, and 20GB is both more RAM than I have and far more than the 3GB limit for 32 bit applications. Any other suggestions about how to convert and upload 20GB of video in a batch?
Pine
I imagine you mean the total of all your video is 20 GB, and that the indvidual files are smaller (?)
Please keep in mind that currently commons has a hard limit of 4 GB as the max file size (By hard I mean hard coded into the code. There might be a possibility to stretch that to 5 GB by making some code changes to MW, but beyond that :S ). So all the individual files you upload in the end must be 4 GB or less.
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If you're comfortable with the command line (and aren't on metered internet ;), one way to do conversion is to upload the file to your tool labs account, and convert using ffmpeg at tool labs. Obviously this is only a viable approach if you feel fairly comfortable with the cli.
-- -bawolff