Yes, It would be nice to support high[er] resolution files. We of course
don't always want the HD embed in an article at 250 pixels wide. An
effort to support that was the transcoding support which is part of the
timedMediaHandler ( the extension version of the mwEmbed gadget with the
same feature set; html5 player, timed text / subtitles, and multiple
sources per embed etc. )
http://prototype.wikimedia.org/sandbox.9/Transcoding_Test
Within the next month I should have time to bring this effort up-to-date
with the latest resource loader and ideally also include the WebM
derivatives input / output format support. But we will need attention
from the foundation side to bring it into production.
Likewise it would be nice support larger file uploads. Because of
architectural limitations of the platform we have targeted a chunk
uploading system in conjunction with the firefogg tool. This also was
'working' has a refactored version, but also needs to brought into
practice and is dependent on the trunk / 1.17 code making it into
production.
For batch video uploads it would be very beneficial to turn on
allowCopyByURL, This enables a script to just send simple api requests
to import a collection of files that are web accessible. This was
enabled temporarily but disabled to be improved. Its been improved for
some time, and once the site gets updated we should lobby for it to be
turned on again.
I agree at a minimum in the short term it would be great to double or
triple the upload limit as servers have certinaly increased in capacity
since the last time we increased it years ago.
peace,
--michael
On 12/23/2010 02:05 PM, Samuel Klein wrote:
Hello,
I know of two different groups that have larger video files they would
like to post to commons.
1) profs with videos on OpenCourseWare that also want them to be
available for remixing and reuse in Wikimedia projecst.
2) documentary filmmakers that want to share their raw material from
interviews and background footage, particularly for documentaries
about Wiki[m]edia.
Examples of the first include a few class-length videos about
classical mechanics, each 150-200MB long, which could be easily broken
down into dozens of clips suitable for illustrating part of various
physics articles and books.
Examples of the second include the material from the original Wikimentary
http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=mediatype%3Amovies%20AND%20collecti…
and the footage from Truth in Numbers?, the former already posted to
the Internet Archive, the latter proposed for uploading and sharing
soon. Since TiN? has ~1TB of footage to share from the past 5 years,
I encouraged them to join this list.
Questions;
--> where should raw original media be posted? I'd like to say
'Commons' but the file size limits prevents that at present. The
Internet Archive solution seems like it may work in theory but is hard
to use in practice.
--> how do we handle high res original formats vs. lighter formats
suitable for quick editing? I assume we don't have tools that
automatically rescale resolution the way we have them for images.
--> have we ever had a bulk upload of video clips?
Sam.
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