THURNER rupert wrote:
i was wondering how one could check that, and i
noticed that i did not know,
out of the top of my head, a single article including a video. so i checked
commons,
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Video.
and, surprise, no sound on ubuntu intrepid (mine at least). e.g.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:AK_drum_performance.ogg. the ogg
itself plays with sound, there is just no easy possibility in wikipedia to
play it that way as the java player insists to come up, and does not work as
expected.
After you click the play button, click the "more" link below the player. A
box will pop up giving you other player option and a link to download the
file. Fixing Java is probably your own responsibility if you want to run a
beta distro. It works just fine for me on hardy. But feel free to file a
bug report.
also, i had to look for a video with sound, because
the videos are
not marked if they are with or without sound.
On the description page, there is a type description which tells you
whether the file has sound or not. For example, with sound:
(Ogg multiplexed audio/video file, Theora/Vorbis, length 6.0s, 320×240
pixels, 2.1Mbps overall)
Without sound:
(Ogg Theora video file, length 3m54s, 160×120 pixels, 178kbps)
Unfortunately many silent videos have an empty Vorbis soundtrack,
unnecessarily bloating the size of the file. I'm not aware of any
user-friendly tool for fixing this, maybe Greg knows one.
maybe we should start an initiative to include all
these videos to some
articles to get more feedback? or add an easy "feedback" link prominently
going to some kind of otrs?
Please do not submit bug reports or feature requests to OTRS. Use
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/
-- Tim Starling