Yes, the tool creates a 720p mp4 as the first step of snatching it from
YouTube - it's 751 Kbps video and 112 Kbps audio.
I manually snatched the 720p mp4 from YouTube at the best rate that it
would give - 1135 Kbps video and 192 Kbps audio, and then I manually
converted that to webm and tried to optimise the compression, so it's
somewhat different from the auto-created version on Commons.
As it turns out, my old eyes can't detect any difference in quality between
any of the bitrates, so I reckon that Fireogg and your script turn out just
as good results as me trying to optimise everything. As I said - nice work!
Cheers
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Rexx
On 15 April 2014 13:50, Fæ
faewik@gmail.com wrote:
> On 15 April 2014 13:39, rexx
rexx@blueyonder.co.uk wrote:
> > Nice work Fae!
> >
> > Hehe - I was converting it to webm at the same time.
> ...
>
> Rexx, I may be wrong (I did not follow the development of this feature
> in any detail), but your webm version is probably the same as the webm
> version included in the different transcoded files that Commons
> generates. Check the bottom section, "Transcode status", of the image
> page at <
>
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_in_Ayb_High_School.ogv%3E.
> It gives several handy different types of file that can be downloaded.
>
> Fae
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