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On 10/04/13 02:22 PM, Sebastian Hellmann wrote:
Well, I guess this should be researched quite well, before investing time in this feature:
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from http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/FOSS_Open_Standards/Comparison_of_File_Formats#...
So who wants "wav" files actually, they are normally very large as well.
The legal status is not so obvious. Maybe you even need a lawyer to judge this correctly. Again, is .wav really so popular, that it justifies the effort?
All the best, Sebastian
wav, being lossless and uncompressed, is popularly used as a 'staging format' by many varieties of software. It is likely Rahul is interested in using wav because that is the raw output codec of an existing js recording library, and so the script would not need to further process the data.
I believe you might guess from the wav standard being included in the wikibook on FOSS Open Standards that while the standard is maintained by Microsoft and IBM, it is not encumbered by licenses for writing tools to use it.
On the other hand, Commons does not currently allow wav files. "On Wikimedia Commons, the file types we accept are: Ogg (using FLAC, Speex, Opus or Vorbis codecs), WebM (using Vorbis), or MIDI (with extension .mid)"[1] Rather than spend time petitioning commons to support wav files, I would suggest the tool be implemented with the current regime. Keeping the format-shifting a modular system may allow for future changes to the commons regime.
Amgine
[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:File_types#Sound