[Commons-l] Broken videos

[geni]

On 17 March 2010 23:26, Lars Aronsson <lars at aronsson.se> wrote:
> Gregory Maxwell wrote:
>> Yes, but the browser isn't psychic. It doesn't know how long its going
>> to take to download the file. Before it starts it doesn't know how
>
> This is not the browser development list, and
> I'm not interested in developing or upgrading
> my browser. I'm interested in video on Wikipedia
> and making it work for large numbers of users,
> using their existing browsers and versions.
>
> I can to upgrade my own browser, but I can't
> upgrade the browser for large numbers of other
> users. All I can do here and now is to note
> that today's browsers aren't ready for this.
>
> Can we determine what today's browsers are
> ready for? Will 2 megabit/second videos work?
> If so, let's set that limit for the coming year,
> and reevaluate the limit in early 2011.
> Wikimedia Commons generates thumbnails
> for still pictures, so it could generate reduced
> bandwidth versions of videos.

That requires more processing power. Might be possible to
automatically add a warning that a video is unlikely to work properly
for most people.


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geni