Dears,
Greetings from Alex!
Some Wikimania2008 sessions are now available on-line. Thanks for Bibalex ICT team for recording all session, and thanks to Kaltura team that was on-site for uploading material and setting the page layout, here:
http://www.kaltura.com/devwiki/index.php/Wikimania_Sessions
To review keynote and invited session, kindly go to http://webcast.bibalex.org/home/home.aspx, a hint for Firefox on lunix users, is found here: http://linuxawy.org/node/28
more to come on WikiCommons..
Enjoy, Moushira
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On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 5:56 PM, Moushira Elamrawy moushirah@gmail.com wrote:
Dears,
Greetings from Alex!
Some Wikimania2008 sessions are now available on-line. Thanks for Bibalex ICT team for recording all session, and thanks to Kaltura team that was on-site for uploading material and setting the page layout, here:
http://www.kaltura.com/devwiki/index.php/Wikimania_Sessions
To review keynote and invited session, kindly go to http://webcast.bibalex.org/home/home.aspx, a hint for Firefox on lunix users, is found here: http://linuxawy.org/node/28
more to come on WikiCommons..
Enjoy, Moushira
Hello,
How do I download videos from Kaltura?
Bryan
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 11:56 AM, Moushira Elamrawy moushirah@gmail.com wrote:
Dears,
Greetings from Alex!
Some Wikimania2008 sessions are now available on-line. Thanks for Bibalex ICT team for recording all session, and thanks to Kaltura team that was on-site for uploading material and setting the page layout, here:
http://www.kaltura.com/devwiki/index.php/Wikimania_Sessions
To review keynote and invited session, kindly go to http://webcast.bibalex.org/home/home.aspx, a hint for Firefox on lunix users, is found here: http://linuxawy.org/node/28
I couldn't play these without installing non-free software and I can not play them at all on the non-x86 platform I'm using at the moment, because the proprietary software is not provided except for x86. ... in fact, nothing at all is displaying on that page, so I can't figure out how to download the files (if they are downloadable at all)
It appears that the videos are embedded by embedding flash movies provided by a non-mediawiki kaltura server at kaltura.com and that the kaltura extension still works just like the youtube embedding extension. At least when embedding youtube there are well known ways of downloading the files.
Gregory Maxwell wrote:
I couldn't play these without installing non-free software and I can not play them at all on the non-x86 platform I'm using at the moment, because the proprietary software is not provided except for x86. ... in fact, nothing at all is displaying on that page, so I can't figure out how to download the files (if they are downloadable at all)
It appears that the videos are embedded by embedding flash movies provided by a non-mediawiki kaltura server at kaltura.com and that the kaltura extension still works just like the youtube embedding extension.
Indeed, these are precisely the reasons that Wikimedia *doesn't use* Kaltura's extension or other similar systems today -- in their current state, based on proprietary codecs and plugins, they simply don't meet our requirements for open access.
I can't get the videos to play on my proprietary Mac either, though, so don't feel left out. ;)
Note that Kaltura is now sponsoring Michael Dale's continued work on advanced video support in MediaWiki. They're not *evil*, they just didn't create their system with the same needs we have in mind.
Michael has long been working on MetaVid, based very heavily on Ogg Theora to ensure openness, and will be both improving our basic Ogg-playing capabilities and creating a truly open version of the online editing interfaces that Kaltura's current stuff provides.
-- brion
2008/7/21 Brion Vibber brion@wikimedia.org:
Michael has long been working on MetaVid, based very heavily on Ogg Theora to ensure openness, and will be both improving our basic Ogg-playing capabilities and creating a truly open version of the online editing interfaces that Kaltura's current stuff provides.
Note that Wikimedia Commons could be one of the largest Theora-only video repositories on the net, particularly if/when we get enough backed-up disk space on the image server for Commons to really get into it. It'd be nice to say "Oh, your Nokia doesn't support Theora? Sucks to be you, looking up Wikipedia in the pub. You shoulda got an OpenMoko."
- d.
You know, those videos should be converted to .ogg format and uplaoded to commons. An audio only version should also be uploaded.
Due to the 20 MB limit only you developers can probably upload it. ;)
- White Cat
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 12:58 AM, Brion Vibber brion@wikimedia.org wrote:
Gregory Maxwell wrote:
I couldn't play these without installing non-free software and I can not play them at all on the non-x86 platform I'm using at the moment, because the proprietary software is not provided except for x86. ... in fact, nothing at all is displaying on that page, so I can't figure out how to download the files (if they are downloadable at all)
It appears that the videos are embedded by embedding flash movies provided by a non-mediawiki kaltura server at kaltura.com and that the kaltura extension still works just like the youtube embedding extension.
Indeed, these are precisely the reasons that Wikimedia *doesn't use* Kaltura's extension or other similar systems today -- in their current state, based on proprietary codecs and plugins, they simply don't meet our requirements for open access.
I can't get the videos to play on my proprietary Mac either, though, so don't feel left out. ;)
Note that Kaltura is now sponsoring Michael Dale's continued work on advanced video support in MediaWiki. They're not *evil*, they just didn't create their system with the same needs we have in mind.
Michael has long been working on MetaVid, based very heavily on Ogg Theora to ensure openness, and will be both improving our basic Ogg-playing capabilities and creating a truly open version of the online editing interfaces that Kaltura's current stuff provides.
-- brion
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