Wikivideo-l December 2015

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Popcorn Maker is dead; long live Popcorn Editor

by Brion Vibber

One of the really cool ‘web maker’ projects that Mozilla sponsored in the last few years was Popcorn Maker <https://popcorn.webmaker.org/>, an in-browser video editor that could take direct video clips or videos from Youtube etc and let you remix to your heart’s content. (See Ben’s blog post from July <http://www.benmoskowitz.com/?p=1083> and Mike’s presentation on Air Mozilla <https://air.mozilla.org/mnolan/>) Obviously this capability is very attractive for the future of video on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia sites! Unfortunately Mozilla has to shuffle priorities, and Popcorn Maker is on the outs <https://blog.webmaker.org/product-update-for-appmaker-and-popcorn-maker>. Fortunately, there’s enough interest in the Wikimedia video world that we’re helping to pick it up! Popcorn Editor is a standalone version <https://github.com/mozilla/popcorn-editor#readme> of the Popcorn Maker editor tool, and I’m going to be helping with integrating that into MediaWiki. We’ve got a milestone in the bug tracker <https://github.com/mozilla/popcorn-editor/milestones/Wikimedia%20proof%20of…> and everything. [image: :)] If you’re interested in helping out, we’re going to have some work sprints at WikiConference USA <http://wikiconferenceusa.org/wiki/2015/Main_Page> next weekend in Washington, DC. Please come and help out! -- brion

6 years, 2 months

Going to land ogv.js into TimedMediaHandler if no one objects

by Brion Vibber

I've done some more fixes to ogv.js to perform *much* smoother on slower machines by running the decoders in Web Worker threads. If there's no objection, I'm going to land ogv.js (and a number of smaller fixes for media playback) into TimedMediaHandler later today. ogv.js is a JavaScript compatibility shim for Ogg and WebM video in Safari and IE/Edge which don't support free codecs natively. (IE/Edge on desktop can use native WebM components if you install them manually but still lack Ogg audio support.) This replaces the old Cortado Java applet that no longer works on most current computers. Please feel free to help review and test! Live demo site https://ogvjs-testing.wmflabs.org/ MwEmbedSupport: * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/227074 - fix fullscreen video in IE TimedMediaHandler: * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/219398 - TMH transcode list ordering fix * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/222294 - misc small buglet * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/226999 - fix double-playback in IE/Edge with native webm installed * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/227066 - fix the popup player on first open * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/227155 - increase quality of Ogg Theora transcodes, add 240p with the old bandwidth of 360p * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/226957 - update ogv.js libs * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/165478 - ogv.js for desktop There's also my basic mobile integration, which requires some more work to support suitable controls: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/217485/ -- brion

7 years, 1 month

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Wikivideo-l December 2015