Hi,
Could this software/service be used to support functionality to transcode video/audio on upload for MediaWiki? http://pandastream.com/
It says it has "Support for the numerous encoding profiles FFmpeg supports" and according to the Wikipedia article this includes Ogg Theora and Vorbis.
As a service it uses Amazon's Web Services, but I guess it would be cheaper for WMF to run it on its own services.
They call themselves open source and I don't know what this license is called, but it certainly seems very liberal: http://github.com/newbamboo/panda/tree/master/LICENSE
cheers Brianna
That license would be BSD I believe.
But no, that's not a very good pick for something to use in MediaWiki for something as simple as delivering videos.
That entire library is heavily Amazon dependent. You'd likely need to rewrite half the system before you could get it to work outside of amazon. Then on top of that, it handles all the uploads on it's own, which makes MediaWiki integration very tough since MW handles uploads on it's own.
But to top it all off, the entire thing is a Ruby on Rails application... Not really something that'll play well with a pure PHP Application meant to be installable about anywhere that you can get PHP up. Which in the mass majority means that ruby isn't supported. The two don't go in hand-to-hand, and are designed around many opposing principles.
Encoding videos for MediaWiki could probably be done easily in the same way we work with thumbnails. I believe mplayer's tools would work for transcoding video and audio. Then you'd only need to integrate that with the thumbnail system, and find a way to stream the resulting videos.
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Brianna Laugher wrote:
Hi,
Could this software/service be used to support functionality to transcode video/audio on upload for MediaWiki? http://pandastream.com/
It says it has "Support for the numerous encoding profiles FFmpeg supports" and according to the Wikipedia article this includes Ogg Theora and Vorbis.
As a service it uses Amazon's Web Services, but I guess it would be cheaper for WMF to run it on its own services.
They call themselves open source and I don't know what this license is called, but it certainly seems very liberal: http://github.com/newbamboo/panda/tree/master/LICENSE
cheers Brianna
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 4:18 AM, Brianna Laugher brianna.laugher@gmail.com wrote:
They call themselves open source and I don't know what this license is called, but it certainly seems very liberal: http://github.com/newbamboo/panda/tree/master/LICENSE
It's the MIT license as it is most oftenly called. (Except by GNU, they insist on calling it the X11 license IIRC)
Bryan
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