Thanks to Giuseppe in ops & a bunch of other folks who have helped out, we've got an updated server configuration for the 'video scalers' that generate media transcodes, supporting VP9 video and Opus audio.
Initially we have one server updated and in production, and the rest should follow by tomorrow. (Updated servers are also in place on the beta cluster.)
This should make it possible for WebM files using VP9 video and/or Opus audio to work as fully first-class citizens in TimedMediaHandler, generating medium- and low-resolution transcodes in Ogg and WebM VP8.
It should also fix Ogg audio files using the Opus codec to work consistently.
Support for generating VP9 transcodes as well is in the code and just needs to be switched on -- I'll tweak that configuration once we've got the rest of the servers upgraded and have more capacity for batch runs.
(I've got a client-side bot which I'll start once that's ready, to force all the files to generate over time.)
-- brion
Cool (:
The video for English Wikipedis's upcoming 5,000,000 article milestone will be in vp9.
Pine On Sep 16, 2015 10:13 AM, "Brion Vibber" bvibber@wikimedia.org wrote:
Thanks to Giuseppe in ops & a bunch of other folks who have helped out, we've got an updated server configuration for the 'video scalers' that generate media transcodes, supporting VP9 video and Opus audio.
Initially we have one server updated and in production, and the rest should follow by tomorrow. (Updated servers are also in place on the beta cluster.)
This should make it possible for WebM files using VP9 video and/or Opus audio to work as fully first-class citizens in TimedMediaHandler, generating medium- and low-resolution transcodes in Ogg and WebM VP8.
It should also fix Ogg audio files using the Opus codec to work consistently.
Support for generating VP9 transcodes as well is in the code and just needs to be switched on -- I'll tweak that configuration once we've got the rest of the servers upgraded and have more capacity for batch runs.
(I've got a client-side bot which I'll start once that's ready, to force all the files to generate over time.)
-- brion
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Good to see video keeps getting some love in the WikiVerse!
On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 6:13 PM Brion Vibber bvibber@wikimedia.org wrote:
Thanks to Giuseppe in ops & a bunch of other folks who have helped out, we've got an updated server configuration for the 'video scalers' that generate media transcodes, supporting VP9 video and Opus audio.
Initially we have one server updated and in production, and the rest should follow by tomorrow. (Updated servers are also in place on the beta cluster.)
This should make it possible for WebM files using VP9 video and/or Opus audio to work as fully first-class citizens in TimedMediaHandler, generating medium- and low-resolution transcodes in Ogg and WebM VP8.
It should also fix Ogg audio files using the Opus codec to work consistently.
Support for generating VP9 transcodes as well is in the code and just needs to be switched on -- I'll tweak that configuration once we've got the rest of the servers upgraded and have more capacity for batch runs.
(I've got a client-side bot which I'll start once that's ready, to force all the files to generate over time.)
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On 9/16/15, Brion Vibber bvibber@wikimedia.org wrote:
Thanks to Giuseppe in ops & a bunch of other folks who have helped out, we've got an updated server configuration for the 'video scalers' that generate media transcodes, supporting VP9 video and Opus audio.
Initially we have one server updated and in production, and the rest should follow by tomorrow. (Updated servers are also in place on the beta cluster.)
This should make it possible for WebM files using VP9 video and/or Opus audio to work as fully first-class citizens in TimedMediaHandler, generating medium- and low-resolution transcodes in Ogg and WebM VP8.
It should also fix Ogg audio files using the Opus codec to work consistently.
Support for generating VP9 transcodes as well is in the code and just needs to be switched on -- I'll tweak that configuration once we've got the rest of the servers upgraded and have more capacity for batch runs.
(I've got a client-side bot which I'll start once that's ready, to force all the files to generate over time.)
-- brion
Woo!
I'm really happy to hear we joined the world of VP9 support.
I'll be honest, there was a time where I thought Daala would be ready before we supported VP9.
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