I've been surprised by the success of this 7 min animation on Dewey
codes, from the Finnish libraries (kirjastokaista.fi):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tF342znnAsM
It's been on the front page of YouTube in Finland for several days now,
even as top 1 trending video. It reached 200k views and counting.
As far as I know, no "serious" video on Wikipedia or other Wikimedia
projects has reached such a virality. (Although I see a Stephen Colbert
and an alltime10s video with 1M views each.) Maybe we can learn
something from it?
The video is part of a series by this Tuomas Toivainen:
http://www.kirjastokaista.fi/kallen-ja-keijon-kirjastoluokat-animaatiot/https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuomas_Toivainen
Federico
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Oggetto: [Multimedia] Video output changing to WebM VP9/Opus soon
Data: Sun, 17 Jun 2018 11:29:00 -0700
Mittente: Brion Vibber
In the next couple weeks I'm planning to start switching our video
transcode output from WebM VP8/Vorbis to the newer WebM VP9/Opus
profile, which saves us about 38% on file size and bandwidth while
retaining the same quality.
This will not affect what kinds of files you upload; only the scaled
transcoded output files used for playback will change. All modern
browsers that support VP8 support VP9 as well, and our player shim for
Safari and IE will continue to work.
All the details:
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:TimedMediaHandler/VP9_transition>
Comments and questions welcome!
-- brion