On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 11:02 AM, Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com wrote:
The code exists and has been revamped a few times in response to reviews, but I'm not sure whether there are actually any assigned resources for pushing it to production at this time.
Yes, there are. Ian and Neil are scheduled to do a code review of TMH, once remaining high priority issues with UploadWizard have been resolved, later this month. Before we've done an initial assessment of the code, it's hard to give a realistic deployment estimate -- there may be parts that need to be rewritten or taken out. So I won't commit us to a public date just yet, just to say that it's definitely something I'd like to see user-visible progress on this calendar year.
Whatever remaining bugbears are lurking in the code, TMH definitely represents the key set of features that are needed to make video in Wikimedia projects suck significantly less (multi-codec and multi-bitrate derivatives generation; a non-ugly player skin; subtitle support). This is really a baseline feature set that we have to get done (this and better large file upload support) to not give users an embarrassingly bad video experience.