[Commons-l] firefogg local encode & new-upload branch update.

[Michael Dale]

As you may know I have been working on firefogg integration with 
mediaWiki. As you may also know the mwEmbed library is being designed to 
support embedding of these interfaces in arbitrary external contexts.  I 
wanted to quickly highlight a useful stand alone usage example of the 
library:

http://www.firefogg.org/make/advanced.html

This "Make Ogg" link will be something you can send to a person so they 
can encode source footage to a local ogg video file with the latest and 
greatest ogg encoders (presently the thusnelda theora encoder  & vorbis 
audio). Updates to thusnelda and other free codecs will be pushed out 
via firefogg updates.

For commons / wikimedia usage we will directly integrate firefogg (using 
that same codebase) You can see an example of how that works on the 
'new-upload' branch here: 
http://sandbox.kaltura.com/testwiki/index.php/Special:Upload ... 
hopefully we will start putting some of this on testing.wikipedia.org 
~soonish ?~

The new-upload branch feature set is quite extensive including the 
script-loader, jquery javascript refactoring, the new upload-api, new 
mv_embed video player, add media wizard etc. Any feedback and specific 
bug reports people can do will be super helpful in gearing up for 
merging this 'new-upload' branch.

For an overview see:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Media_Projects_Overview

peace,
--michael