Wikivideo-l September 2015

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Going to land ogv.js into TimedMediaHandler if no one objects
by Brion Vibber 31 Jan '16

31 Jan '16

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

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Alliance for Open Media: everybody but Apple now working on next-gen open codec
by Brion Vibber 30 Sep '15

30 Sep '15

This may be of interest: http://aomedia.org/press-release/alliance-to-deliver-next-generation-open-m… Amazon, Cisco, Google, Intel, Microsoft, Mozilla, and Netflix are pooling resources to work on hammering out a standard, royalty-free, next-gen open video codec. Cisco and Mozilla had already started working together, combining ideas from Cisco's Thor codec and the Mozilla-sponsored Xiph's Daala codec, but getting them together with Google's VPx team is a big happy occasion... getting Intel and Microsoft on board means probably hardware support on x86_64 chips and support in Windows and MS Edge, while Amazon and Netflix pump a lot of video volume out both to browsers and devices, so should help push adoption by ARM SoC makers. In other words, AWESOME SAUCE! The only missing major player looks to be Apple... so we'll see if they eventually join on or if they double down on HEVC and we keep having to play JavaScript tricks. :P I'm subscribing to their mailing list for updates; it may be worth looking into if we can partner in or at least follow along and support stuff on our end. -- brion

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Video: updated support for VP9, Opus source media
by Brion Vibber 16 Sep '15

16 Sep '15

Thanks to Giuseppe in ops & a bunch of other folks who have helped out, we've got an updated server configuration for the 'video scalers' that generate media transcodes, supporting VP9 video and Opus audio. Initially we have one server updated and in production, and the rest should follow by tomorrow. (Updated servers are also in place on the beta cluster.) This should make it possible for WebM files using VP9 video and/or Opus audio to work as fully first-class citizens in TimedMediaHandler, generating medium- and low-resolution transcodes in Ogg and WebM VP8. It should also fix Ogg audio files using the Opus codec to work consistently. Support for generating VP9 transcodes as well is in the code and just needs to be switched on -- I'll tweak that configuration once we've got the rest of the servers upgraded and have more capacity for batch runs. (I've got a client-side bot which I'll start once that's ready, to force all the files to generate over time.) -- brion

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#Edit2015 - please share your images and ideas for a Wikipedia year-in-review video
by Victor Grigas 02 Sep '15

02 Sep '15

(cross-posting from wikimedia-l) Hi everyone, Last year, the Wikimedia Foundation published our first ever video year-in-review: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_Edit_2014.webm Which covered some of the major news events of 2014 through the lens of Wikipedia. This year, we’re opening up the idea development and pre-production process of making a video for 2015 to everyone. This is an opportunity for you to help shape the narrative of the events of 2015: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:VGrigas_(WMF)/Edit2015 Last year’s video was made largely by myself and another video editor over about 8 weeks at the end of 2014. I spent the first half of my 8 weeks researching news, comparing that to view and edit counts of Wikipedia pages, and searching for media to illustrate those events. After I had that media, it was a matter of taste to place them in a video editing timeline. When we published it, the press and the general population on the Internet reacted positively. All things considered, I think that #Edit2014 was a good start, and I’m happy with the final result—but I’d like to improve a few things for #Edit2015. Here’s the plan: Open Collaboration: I’m opening up the whole idea-development and pre-production process (research, scriptwriting, brainstorming, finding media, etc.) for making #Edit2015 to on-wiki collaboration. While experimental, we have #Edit2014 as a guide to show that a final product can be done; it taught me that year-in-review videos cover international news events through a brand (in this case Wikipedia) by telling each news story in about 5 seconds and then cutting to the next one. After being multiplied by around 20 stories, your video will be upwards of two minutes long when the credits, logos and titles are included. If you watch other year-in-review videos (like Google Zeitgeist Year In Search) you’ll see how each will spend 5 seconds on a topic and then jump to the next. First drafts of #Edit2014 were half global news and half wiki-world news. I wanted to showcase as many Wikimedia tools, events and projects as possible. What I found was that since this is for a wide audience, and it’s only a few short minutes long, we only have a chance to communicate one or two new ideas (for an ordinary person who uses the internet), so we had to be very selective about what was showcased. In this case, it was a chance to talk about the edit button and Wiki Loves Monuments briefly. Then we have to get back to those global shared news events that the public may have experienced. Aspects like ‘going down the rabbit hole,’ clicking link after link, was something that ordinary people were familiar with, so this is something we used to bridge stories. The idea-development and pre-production process does not require any fancy video equipment—just a wiki page and an internet connection. I used post-it notes on my wall to organize my ideas. I think that we—that is, the Wikimedia crowd—can be very good at story development and collaboration. I’ve been collecting imagery and ideas online, and I’d like to allow anyone to use this space as a place to collaborate on this project: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:VGrigas_(WMF)/Edit2015 An idea I had for this year is to somehow showcase the talk pages about Wikipedia articles, to show how we arrive at consensus and a neutral-point-of-view. Finding the right article(s) and talk page quotes to use to illustrate that would be key. Last year, we showcased the edit button using the 2014 Israel-Gaza conflict. For that, we see closeups of ‘citation needed’ and ‘disputed-discuss’ then we cut to the different languages of that article. Imagine if you saw a tiny fraction of the behind-the scenes talk about an article like that and how it aims for objectivity? Rules: These are some basic criteria I made to guide what content got into #Edit2014: Has the event made it to the international press or wide regional press? Does the event have corresponding view or edit counts? Do we have freely licensed imagery for the event? Was there a special circumstance about this event per Wikimedia projects? Does this illustrate some aspect of Wikimedia that the public should know? Is the media beautiful? Does the Wikimedia Foundation legal team approve of the media? Do we have some media and news from every major region of the world? As for production and post-production – Continuity, music, audio mixing, et cetera are all things that should ideally be online and in a collaborative manner but currently there is no system in place to collaborate on those things using Wikimedia projects. I’d love to develop that system, but I don’t think that it is practical for this year. I’d also like to aim to make the video as close to 2 minutes in length as possible. Schedule: So the logical publication date for #Edit2015 is December 15th because that’s when the press, who would republish and spread the video on social media, are still at work and this is an easy story for them to publish before they go on vacation at the end of December. Getting this in the press gets more eyeballs on the video. That means that actual video editing should be well on its way in October and November. This is my current schedule (for now): Brainstorm and pre-production: now – October 1st Production (assemble the footage): October 1st – November 15th Post-Production (lock all the details): November 15th – December 1st Distribution (captions and translations, thumbnails, text copy, uploading, and any last-minute edits): December 1st – December 15th Internationalism: My biggest problem with #Edit2014 was that so much of it was in English. While we tried to cover as many regions and languages as possible, a non-English speaker probably had to watch it with the captions on—and then your eyes are stuck reading text on the bottom of the screen rather than viewing the interplay of images and text. I think that opening up the development and pre-production phase would flatten out the perspective quite a bit, or at least help to point out flaws and suggest other ideas. We shouldn’t have to rely on captions to make it universally understandable, and since we’ll be jumping from one story to the next in 5 seconds, we can express a story in any local language. There may also be ‘universal’ communication media like video, imagery or numbers that are associated with the text that they can understand. Media Content: There are a few sources for freely-licensed imagery that we can use for #Edit 2015: still imagery, video imagery, Wikimedia project pages, audio, and imagery we make ourselves. I’d love if we could somehow have more audio/video content for #Edit2015. I looked for freely-licensed video and .gifs on Wikimedia Commons, Vimeo, Internet Archive and YouTube, and I know there are many more I could have used. The first few versions of #Edit2014 incorporated more video than the final cut did, but much was cut out because it was too busy or complicated to communicate an idea quickly. Sometimes a still frame of a Wikipedia article or a still photo might communicate the idea more neutrally or succinctly than portions of freely-licensed videos could. For every still image you see in #Edit2014, there’s probably 10 more that didn’t make the final cut. It took a lot of research to find appropriate and compelling imagery. I’m very optimistic that this will be a fruitful initiative, and I can’t wait to see all the usernames of everyone who contributes. Please share this link with your friends: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:VGrigas_(WMF)/Edit2015 Let’s collaborate and tell the story of Wikipedia and 2015 together. -- *Victor Grigas* Storyteller <https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/WPZeroPetition> and Video Content Producer Wikimedia Foundation vgrigas(a)wikimedia.org https://donate.wikimedia.org/

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Wikiconference USA session submission
by Andrew Lih 01 Sep '15

01 Sep '15

FYI, this is the video-related submission for Wikiconference USA, October 9-11, 2015 in Washington DC. We plan on having part of the Sunday unconference day to work on next steps related to possibly working with Mozilla and Internet Archive to further a full editing system. http://wikiconferenceusa.org/wiki/Submissions:2015/Video_in_Wikimedia:_Toda… Hope to see some interested folks from this list there in DC. -Andrew

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