2010/7/11 Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com:
On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 6:29 AM, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:
I am hugely grateful that we have reliable streaming this year, thanks to a lot of volunteer effort. Perhaps we can defer the ideological nitpicking and just share that appreciation. I would be grateful even if it required a Windows-only plugin, which Flash is not.
I've been working from a non-x86 system the past couple of days. Even if I wanted to install the proprietary flash software I couldn't.
Since it's perfectly possible to set up streams that don't rely on Flash and can be viewed with open source media players like VLC, I do believe we should aim to do that next year.
The time delayed uploaded files worked pretty well last year, and I was able to watch all the presentations I was interested in. This year I wasn't able to watch a single one.
Last year's system of encoding the videos to OGG overnight and uploading them to Commons the next afternoon was pretty awesome; unfortunately we won't be doing that this year, but the organization have told me (on wikimania-l) that they will obtain the OGGs from the video company on DVD(s), and I have asked them to mail that/those DVD(s) to our datacenter so I can import all videos to Commons when they arrive.
Roan Kattouw (Catrope)