I'm wondering what people have found to be the best practices for
identifying video in Wikipedia articles.
A number of issues:
- One of the problems is the OGG is a container, so simply parsing article
Wikimarkup may not be sufficient to identify video content.
- You can go by category, but this is not always fully accurate
- Are GIFs that are animated considered video? Some are, and some aren't.
Interested in hearing what people think, or whether we have a taxonomy of
video types that are well defined.
-Andrew
Earlier, Brion Vibber wrote:
> Apparently the US Library of Congress has been archiving videos as
> MXF (the container format that MOX is planned to be based off) with
> lossless-mode JPEG 2000 for the video payload... and they're pushing
> a baseline format around that for digital video preservation.
This is also the basis of the 'DCP' format used for distribution to
theatres with digital projectors, so there's simplicity in standardizing
that for archival of finished films.
Of course JPEG 2000 and MXF both specification with gratis distribution,
but I'm not aware of any patent restrictions on implementations.
-r
Wow, it took them over 3 months to *not *answer my question.
But, as I am developing on Mac OS X, it looks like there's nothing holding
us back to host ProRes files.
Now who has a huge server to spare?
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Apple ProRes Program Office <ProRes(a)apple.com>
Date: 2014-12-03 22:26 GMT+01:00
Subject: Re: license needed for hosting ProRes files?
To: Sebastiaan ter Burg <terburg(a)wikimedia.nl>
Dear Sebastiaan,
Thank you for your patience. We have been inundated with ProRes requests.
If you are developing on Mac OS X, no ProRes license is needed as it is
available on our platform.
*General Reference Documents*
Authorized Apple ProRes List <http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5959>
Apple ProRes White Paper, June 2014
<http://images.apple.com/final-cut-pro/docs/Apple_ProRes_White_Paper.pdf>
Best,
- Apple ProRes Program Office.
===
On Aug 21, 2014, at 7:07 AM, Sebastiaan ter Burg <terburg(a)wikimedia.nl>
wrote:
Dear Sir/Madam,
Wikimedia Nederland is researching the options to set up a publicly
available file server for uncompressed video footage. This would be a ftp
server or a similar service.
The uncompressed footage will not be played back by the server. For
playback the files are client-sided - by the uploader - compressed to
smaller and open formats (WebM of OGV) and uploaded separately.
Questions:
1. Under the conditions mentioned above, would it be possible to use
ProRes as a/the codec to share the uncompressed footage?
2. Is a license needed to share ProRes files?
3. If so, are there solution where this be done without a license?
4. Does the hardware and software of the server affect above?
With kind regards,
Sebastiaan ter Burg
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Hi all,
I have written a blogpost about our positive(!) experiences with organizing
a video-challenge on the UNESCO World day for Audiovisual Heritage. You can
find it here:
http://www.beeldengeluid.nl/en/blogs/research-amp-development-en/201412/vid…
Most notably, over 400 videos were added to articles within three weeks.
We're very open to suggestions how we can improve these type of 'contests'
and perhaps there are people who would like to join in for next years'
World Day of Audiovisual Heritage (7th October 2015)? :)
Best,
Jesse
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Hi everyone,
some of you might have seen that I've send out the first public messages
about the GLAM WIKI 2015 conference
<https://nl.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM-WIKI_2015>. Now, there's still a lot to
arrange and loads of stuff are uncertain, but I already want to plant an
idea in your heads: GLAM WIKI TV.
A couple of weeks ago I went to Copenhagen with a friend to do interviews
at a conference. We interviewed speakers
<https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDxXQy74yPNhxxKI8IiWNMmWDqWi4iYuP>
after their presentation about the message they brought to the event. This
formula worked great and could also be applied to visitors (what have you
learned / will you take back home) and panel leaders. Most of the
interviews were online before lunch the next day.
Mostly it involved:
1. An interviewer
2. A camera journalist that isn't afraid of handling multiple camera's
3. A production assistent that gets the people, writes summaries, etc.
I don't know if there's any budget to organise something like this at GLAM
WIKI 2015, but I'm very interested in what you can/would like to do. To
start myself: in any other event I could take on role 1 (I did interviews
too <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXKd-5Q9GV4>) or 2 (did almost all the
camera work and editing), but I will be too busy during the conference.
While I'm typing this I realise that this could be an open document / wiki
page to gather expertise and interests of people on this list.
Oh, and yes... Wikimania TV has crossed my mind too. And if we could pull
something off at Wikimedia, I'm volunteering to do the GLAM interviews and
to help out with some camera work.
Best,
Sebastiaan
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Hi everyone,
I thought you might be interested in a project that I'm working on: I'm
preparing a trip to San Francisco to interview organisations and experts
about the "Crowd Economy". We'll share the raw footage, timelines, etc.
with a CC BY license. I've just posted an update about the workflow I plan
to use. I'll gladly hear your suggestions to improve my workflow!
Update on IndieGoGo:
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/crowd-expedition-goes-san-francisco#acti…
Direct link to Youtube:http://youtu.be/KDBKf8mNm4c
And everyone in SF: I hope to interview someone (Lila?) form the foundation
too. So let me know if you want to help out arranging that or want to meet
up for coffee.
Best,
Sebastiaan
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Dear all?
disclaimer: This is a german-speaking project. I thought I should share
this with you anyway, due to your affinities.
"videos for wikipedia articles", short "VWA", is a project which runs
for almost one year.
The efforts of "primary public service 2.0" (incubator of Leuphiana
University), WikiTV and the science year 2014 (digital society) have
been combined. The result was a project supported by Wikimedia
Deutschland and the federal ministry for education and research to
foster videos in Wikipedia:
* video competition on the creation of videos in the context of "digital
society" for Wikipedia
* workshops to train and support future video producers
* intensive advertisement and outreach via banners on Wikipedia,
mailinglist posts, international discussions like the video lunch at
Wikimania etc.
The workshops are all over now and the submission deadline for the
competition is past - now it is your turn!
Which videos should win? You vote!
There are 44 videos in three categories, you have ten votes which you
can distribute freely:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Videos_f%C3%BCr_Wikipedia-Artike…
Click through the categories, choose your prefered videos, share the
news! We aim at a broad participation.
In parallel to the community vote there is a jury which is assessing all
videos, so there will be two winners in each category, in total there
will be six prices to be awarded at the ceremony at Wikimedia
Deutschland on December 5th.
Links:
* https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiTV/VWA/Wettbewerb
* https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiTV/VWA/Workshops
* https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:VWA_2014
A big thanks to Rillke who set up the voting tool!
Thanks a lot for your participation and regards,
Manuel
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On Tue, November 4, 2014 5:55 pm, Brion Vibber wrote:
> Hmm, is Motion-JPEG no longer a thing, or does it not scale to the quality
> or bitrates needed nowadays? Used to be pretty standard back in the days I
> was fiddling with video editing 10-15 years ago (MJPEG would be packaged
> usually in .avi or .mov depending on the platform's preferred video
> container).
Motion-JPEG is a thing to the extent that IP cameras deliver
JPEG-over-RTSP/RTP -- a fair number of cameras on-market do, others do
on-the-fly MP4 streaming, and some do both. Thus, saving the incoming
M-JPEG stream is means of (virtually) lossless recording. Likewise if you
have HW acceleration available to do on-the-fly JPEG conversion from raw
bayer recording modes.
The LibrePlanet 2013 videos hosted on media.libreplanet.org were recording
in JPEG+Vorbis-in-Matroska (18FPS) then converted to WebM for upload.
There's no corresponding container binding I'm aware of for JPEG-in-Ogg but
in theory this can be done without much fuss. In any case the
video/editing quality, command-line tools, and patent status (IANAL) is
really quite suitable for use in the free software community but widespread
adoption is another issue altogether. The format also works well within
Pitivi.
There's arbitrary JPEG-in-Matroska upload restrictions on popular video
hosting services: the backend ffmpeg binary is able to decode and convert
just fine but the format hasn't been explicitly whitelisted due to
_______. I would be happy to see JPEG-in-Matroska adoption by the WMF and
community.
Sincerely,
George
Hi folks,
Wondering if anyone has addressed the issue of Commons-friendly formats for
exchanging on-screen graphics or lower-third graphics with alpha channels
for video?
Seems like the .xcf format used by GIMP is the way to go, and it's
supported in Commons, but I'd like to find out if anyone has any
experiences with this.
-Andrew