On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 9:12 PM, Steve Bennett <stevagewp(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 9:38 AM, Sage Ross
<ragesoss+wikipedia(a)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(a)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