Hi Manuel,
thanks for the answer!
ZIM would be for desktop use though. That's a definitely a good start,
and we should pursue this in parallel. How do you enable ZIM in the
Collection extension?
However, my understanding is that ZIM files do not allow incremental
updates. With our site in Africa, we can only push ~ 10s of MB per
night, so incremental updates are essential. We're also looking for a
server-based solution, so that we only need to distribute to our
low-power server.
Thanks,
Bjoern
On 18 June 2012 12:17, Manuel Schneider <manuel.schneider(a)wikimedia.ch> wrote:
Hi Björn,
basically ZIM files can hold whatever content, so having videos in them
is theoretically no problem at all.
1st question: Does Kiwix (the most popular ZIM reader) support video?
As Kiwix is using XUL, based on Firefox, chances are that Ogg/Theora
videos may work out of the box.
2nd question: Do the ZIM exporter (either Extension:Collection or Kiwix'
perl tools) export embedded videos as well? When using the perl tools it
should be no problem to amend if needed.
/Manuel
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