On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 02:14:35PM -0500, Mike Baynton wrote:
A quick analysis of contributions will occur at upload time to determine their type and, in the case of audio or video files, whether the server knows how to recode them to an Ogg format. In the case of files that can be recoded, the user will receive a simple "upload successful" message, and the source file will be added to a queue of recoding jobs.
- An upload analyzer script that rapidly determines if a given file is a
valid audio/video type, and if so determines the feasibility of recoding it to Vorbis or Theora. It will report its findings to the contributors at upload time, and enqueue suitable jobs for recoding.
Given the quality loss which can occur when recoding from one psychoacoustically compressed audio format (say, MP3) to another (say, OGG), and the often forgotten fact that WMF, while MediaWiki's primary customer, isn't its only one, can you speak a bit to how parameterizable you forsee making these judgement calls in the software, Mike?
Cheers, -- jra