[Commons-l] We should permit Flash video playback

[Magnus Manske]

Just briefly: Trying on my machine at work (no admin rights here whatsoever...)

Apollo 15 liftoff from the Moon.ogg
* Firefox 2.0.0.5 does not play at all
* Opera 9.2.2 plays using Java, but the time display is broken, and I
can't operate the slider (always on maximum)
* Same on IE7

YouTube works just fine...

IMHO there is a simple solution. All our videos are free and can be
reused, right? So, /another site/ could automatically download all out
videos and convert them to Flash/whatever. And we could link to this
site, "in case you cat'n see the video". The Java player is on the
toolserver already.

Now, the Internet Archive could host that, right? Or Wikia. Or Google
or Yahoo. Doesn't really matter, as long as we maintain good relations
with them, so they won't drown their pages in ads, and link back to
our ogg files.

Cheers,
Magnus