On 01/10/2007, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
On 10/1/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
(What's the US patent exposure from having an MPEG-to-Theora converter on Wikimedia servers? Would running one on the toolserver be safe enough?)
I think that even better would be a client local transcoder which uses the client installed codecs: then it becomes "if you can play it in WindowsMedia, you can upload it using this tool" ... Gets us out of the business of tracking the codec dejure and is useful for people who want to do things other than preparing files for us.
I'm thinking in terms of as a transparent part of the upload process. Same sort of reason we have Java-based inline media players for Ogg content: computers are painful enough.
- d.