On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 9:57 AM, David Gerarddgerard@gmail.com wrote:
2009/8/1 Brian Brian.Mingus@colorado.edu:
I think you vastly underestimate the amount of video that will be uploaded. Michael is right in thinking big and thinking distributed. CPU cycles are not *that* cheap. There is a lot of free video out there and as soon as we have a stable system in place wikimedians are going to have a heyday uploading it to Commons.
Oh hell yes. If I could just upload any AVI or MPEG4 straight off a camera, you bet I would. Just imagine what people who've never heard the word "Theora" will do.
Even if so, I don't think assuming that every single commons upload at the current rate will instead be a 15-minute video is much of an underestimate...
-Kat