On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 3:47 AM, Laura Hale laura@fanhistory.com wrote:
It would be awesome to see more video, but the technical end really needs to improve on some level. Ditto with the audio. There was a discussion at one point about putting a video on the front page of English Wikipedia as a DYK picture. (HJ Mitchell nominated it I think. The video was from a cartoon and was public domain.) It ran because the image was in public domain. It had an outstanding number of views. The problem is yeah... local download required. I believe even if you resize the file like "200px", the video itself isn't "resized" so taking a 1000px wide video that is 100megs, putting it into an article as 200px still requires a 100megs upload.
That is no longer the case. Part of the TimedMediaHandler rollout last year was the added functionality to generate derivatives in multiple resolutions. This gives you a YouTube-style selector when viewing the video which allows you to pick the resolution you'd like to play it in. Moreover, when embedding a video in a tiny pixel size, the player will "pop out" when clicking the video to enable you to actually watch it.
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/11/08/introducing-wikipedias-new-html5-video...