Good news for wikivideo!
http://gizmodo.com/5807650/youtubes-creative-commons-license-lets-you-remix…
YouTube, beginning today, is supposed to start offering a CC-BY
licensing option for uploaders. "Al Jazeera and C-SPAN are launch
partners and have agreed to release 10,000 Creative Commons videos."
This will make it quite a bit easier to find free video, and easier
for other organizations and individuals to free their videos.
Cool beans!
-Sage
Great news for people looking to find appropriate video for illustration. SJ
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From: Alex Kozak <alex(a)massthink.net>
Subject: [FC-discuss] YouTube and CC BY
Hey all, I'm pleased to pass along this news: Starting tomorrow at 9am
Pacific time, YouTube will offer the option to license videos with the
Creative Commons CC-By-3.0 license, and will introduce new remixing
options in YouTube's cloud-based video editor.
AK
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Hi wikivideophiles,
Thought you might be interested in these feelers I put out about a
possible Wikipedia Featured Videos process, and some helpful
responses:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Featured_sound_candidates#Video…
(For background, videos can currently be elevated to either Featured
Pictures or Features Sounds, depending on their focus. And I actually
first helped get the ball rolling on Featured Sounds a few years ago
:) )
Thanks,
Richard
(User:Pharos)
Related to the discussion of size and bitrate of uploaded video
discussions on wikivideo-l, I thought it would be nice to share the
latest efforts on the TimedMediaHandler extension.
This extension will help make the size and bitrate choices less of an
issue, and will just be a matter of uploading the highest quality
version you can. The extension auto transcodes to a few different
derivative formats.
Its best illustrated by features overview page: ( best viewed with
Firefox 4 )
http://prototype.wikimedia.org/timedmedia/Main_Page
This extension standardises a lot of features of the mwEmbed player
gadget, like pop-up gallery videos, temporal media fragments, timed
text, iframe embed video sharing, html5 standard "video", "source" and
"track" page output, etc.
The bottom clip illustrates a key feature of this extension with a real
commons "media of the day" clip from a few days back. JJ Harrison
uploaded a very nice, very encyclopaedic HD nature clip, but at
1920x1088 and 13mbs it fails to playback almost any time some tires to
play it :( With this extension we get the 'right' resolution given the
embed size, and have easy access to switch streams as you go into
fullscreen if your computer / connection supports it.
There are still a few resource loader integration issues to work out
before more widely sharing these efforts, but I thought I would share it
on these list to get some early feedback.
I have filed a tracking bug
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27699 to keep track of
its progress toward deployment. If you file related related bugs or
feature requests, you can tag them with that tracking bug.
Also got started on a mediawiki.org extension page:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:TimedMediaHandler
peace,
michael
In Firefox 3.6.13 on Linux, I can show Ogg Theora videos just fine,
which is a great step forward from earlier versions a year ago.
But there are still bugs, where the playback just hangs. I have
no way to tell if this is a poorly encoded video or a browser bug
or something relating to my screen driver. All I know is that it
happens more often for videos with higher bitrate. As a programmer,
I could guess that there is some buffer competition, a combination
of buffer boundaries and time racing, that causes a deadlock.
I have no way to know the reason or whether it is unique to me.
Too few people watch videos in Wikipedia, so I have no user base
to draw conclusions from. The source code is available, but I
don't want to take the time to specialize in video decoding.
This headache is already taking far too much of my time.
For one video, I changed the encoding and this made the problem
occur less frequently for me. This 720 x 544 pixel, 15 minute
video was 116 MB when first encoded with "ffmpeg2theora" without
parameters, so to make it pass under the 100 MB limit I added
"-v 4" (lowercase v for video quality), to slightly reduce the
video quality. But it hanged just too often, and by encoding
with "-V 600" (uppercase V for bitrate, 600 kbit/s), it runs
a lot more smooth on my laptop. You can try either version at
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:M%C3%A4n_och_maskiner_1936.ogv
Looking at these 1200 Dutch videos,
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Media_from_Open_Beelden
they are just 320x240 pixels, which is another way to get
smaller files and lower bitrates.
Is that something I should settle for? Will I live happier
and prosper if I scale all videos to half their size?
Maybe in 2-3 years time, when the 100 MB limit has been
lifted and Firefox 4.x offers a more mature video playback,
we can upload the same videos in better resolution?
Should we make this a recommendation? Do we have statistics
on the resolution and bitrate of the videos on Commons?
Who did the job with the Dutch films? How did they reason?
--
Lars Aronsson (lars(a)aronsson.se)
Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se
Thanks, Sam. Another opportunity here may be for the community to help define new citation standards for time-based media. There are no commonly accepted practices yet - still - for how to write and punctuate references to film and sound in captions, footnotes, and bibliographies.
-- Peter.
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From: Samuel Klein [mailto:meta.sj@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 08:24 PM
To: 'Opportunities for video in the Wikimedia universe, tech help'
Cc: 'Wikimedia Commons'
Subject: Re: [Wikivideo-l] OpenCourseware videos, video players, and more
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Erik Moeller wrote:> 2011/2/10 Samuel Klein :>> OCW wants a failproof way to instruct people to set up their browsers>> so that our media player works.>> Use Flash video. *ducks*This comment did come up :) The OCW staff were sympathetic andappreciated the fact that Wikipedia is a visible proponent of the needfor a free toolchain. But they want to convince professors who may beon the fence about releasing their videos under a free licensecomfortable with it. Profs who appreciate these subtletie won't be onthe fence.> The best you can do for now is recommend people install Firefox (you> may want to use the beta for the best experience).OK. That addresses the first Q; I will recommend profs be pointed here:http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/beta/I hope to have more progress/uploads in time for the Free Culturegathering next weekend.At some point a table like this one specifically for compatibilitywith our player would be useful:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML5_video#Table< Q3: Do we have historical stats on the # of media files in Commons byfiletype or mediatype?Or current stats? Hans Westerhof at the Dutch Institute for Sound andVision joined for the meeting (he is visiting Cambridge for a month)and said that the 1000 news clips they've uploaded made up 10% of thevideo on Commons at the time. I wonder if that's still the case.< Q5: why is the link to the permissions email still so hard to find?I am inclined to point people to special:uploadwizard, another finebeta, even though it elides this part of the permissions process, andto encourage them to categorize uploads with a simple memorable tag.It would be useful to be able to generate an upload URL that has a setof categories already included as an argument, so that everyone usingthat URL would have those tags applied to uploaded media.< Q6: do we still have that 100MB file size limit? can we change this to 500MB?Should this be asked on wikitech instead?Sam.-- Samuel Klein identi.ca:sj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266_______________________________________________Wikivideo-l mailing listWikivideo-l@lists.wikimedia.orghttps://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikivideo-l
