Hi Nkansah,
yes, uploading on Commons for files > 100 MB is not easy. A modern browser supporting chunked uploads using the new Commons upload wizard supports up to 1 GB.
The Video Convert tool on WMF labs that has been proposed to you for the WebM encoding supports several GBs, transcodes to WebM and does the upload to Commons after transcoding, so that helps a lot to fix that problem.
I would also help you with moving the files from Youtube to Commons but Youtube doesn't allow downloading them. I could hack it and grab the FLV stream and transcode that but I'd rather would like to get the files directly from you to minimize quality loss. Is there a way you can share the rendered files - in whatever original format they are? I can also offer a FTP upload.
/Manuel
On 02/10/2015 09:42 AM, Nkansah Rexford wrote:
I couldn't upload even a single video of what I did to Wikimedia Commons. For whatever reasons, it doesn't WORK. uploading to YouTube happens at a breeze. Wikimedia Commons? its a no no.
All the 6 edited videos on YouTube[1]. I've marked the ones that are CC-BY-SA license compliant. (those that aren't yet will be very soon). Subtitling will also be added soon.
I won't be uploading the videos to Commons, therefore. If anyone here is interested to upload to Commons, you can download the videos from youtube in .webm formats, and upload to Commons.
I wrote a blog[2] outlining how the doing of all these videos started and ended (I touch on why I'm not uploading to Commons in the article. With all due respect to WMF and the upload tool devs, the Upload tool, both form and wizard, are broken!)
Will it be in context to write about what went on in getting the videos done on Wikimedia Blog?
Please get in touch if there's any issue with any of the videos on YouTube. thanks