On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 3:36 PM, Walter Vermeir walter@wikipedia.be wrote:
Casey Brown schreef:
I am pretty sure that videos in .ogg (or another more easily playable format) are going to be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons soon. BA is working on it, atm.
That would be very nice if that would happen. After previous Wikimanias it was also anounced that the videos would come soon available.
Let's see after Wikimania 2009 how the videos of Wikimania 2008 are doing.
Hi Walter, Don't worry. BA took care of recording all sessions; so now they are available in digital format. Of course, videos couldn't be made instantly available online, for certainly this huge amount of data (some 60 GB!) takes time in processing, and conversion to ogg format. We are still investigating other options in case this too much data did not fit in WikiCommons: one video is ~1G, while maximum ogg upload on Commons is 20MB!); other options include uploading videos to an ftp or to the Internet Archive, which BA already hosts a mirror of.
Opening, closing, keynote and invited speakers sessions were the only ones that were streamed live, so now they are archived here: http://webcast.bibalex.org/home/home.aspx, there is a useful hint for FF on Lunix users here: http://linuxawy.org/node/28
Same sessions of web-cast, in additions to some others are also available on Kaltura.devwiki
More news to come next week...Don't worry:)
Regards, Moushira