Hello Maarten,
I’m not sure I’m seeing the compete thread of this discussion here, but I can say something on the reasoning behind our choices on size and bitrate and the current offering on Open Images:
- The derivative Ogg Theora files on Open Images are mainly transcoded from the ‘source’ file we make available as open video from our newsreel collection. These files are an 352×288 MPEG-1 file. Most of them are between 2 and 4 minutes.
This answers my question, thank you. This month, as you might know, your colleagues in Stockholm opened the website http://filmarkivet.se/
I tried to copy some of the films from there to Wikipedia, but I experienced some problems. These films are in the range of 720 x 576, about the twice that of yours. It seems many browsers still have a problem with this, and the smaller format works more smoothly. I'm in the hope that this problem will go away with time, and I will not reduce the size that I have.
One example is this clip of how to typeset a newspaper, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sattning_Stockholms-Tidningen_1937.og...