On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 9:12 PM, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 9:38 AM, Sage Ross ragesoss+wikipedia@gmail.com wrote:
It's not too hard now if you're running Firefox 3.5. Just edit your video in whatever video software is easiest on your machine (e.g., Windows Movie Maker) and save a high quality version in a convenient format (e.g., AVI, MPEG, other common formats), then go firefogg.org, install the plug-in, click "make ogg", and use the default encoding settings.
If you're feeling especially ambitious, you can add metadata and/or fiddle with the resolution and bit-rate settings (all through firefogg). Converting to Commons-ready ogg with firefogg is actually easier than uploading a file to Commons.
Hmm, sounds like that would make a good extension to Commonist.
Firefogg is part of the "add media wizard" that (I think) is being refined for default deployment on Commons. (It's already available if you add a bit of code to your javascript page.) So yeah, sooner or later it will be possible for many users to simply upload their non-free format videos have them seamlessly transcoded.
Along the same lines, hopefully Commonist will simply become unnecessary and batch uploads possible without extra software.
On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 7:42 PM, Risker risker.wp@gmail.com wrote:
See now...when I read Steve's question, I was thinking about the "hard work" of taking care of the star of the film...
All the jokes I thought of in response require too much familiarity with me to be unambiguously non-sexist to WikiEN-l subscribers, so I'll just say... that's how I read the question at first, too.
-Sage