On 21 March 2012 08:17, Jürgen Fenn schneeschmelze@googlemail.com wrote:
I wonder whether we should rather use our strength in users' demand in order to make pressure on manufacturers to support free-software codecs than adopting the costly and patented codecs. I mean, it's not only about content. MediaWiki and Wikimedia should remain free from a technical point of view, too.
The actual problem there is there's not enough video content on Wikimedia sites as yet to make this a user pressure issue.
So we need to be able to *ingest* anything that comes in from a camera or a phone, even if we save it as Theora or VP8.
(This is harder than it sounds, but is apparently in progress, in the coming-some-day Timed Media Handler.)
At that point we can start on serious programs to add video. Every article on a street should have video of the street, for example. Video of athletes in action [1]. Etc.
- d.
[1] and boy will *that* be interesting for egregious overreaching claims of copyright by sports leagues, but anyway.