[Foundation-l] Wikimania 2008; online video recordings

[teun spaans]

Alas i am unable to view the videos. I regret i would have to resort to IE
to view these proceedings.

It is perfectly possible to offer contenst through mms: links in a way that
FF can open as a stream. The installation of additiona; plugins i not
necessary. The provider i use for our church website has been doing this for
years, certainly it should be posisble here too.


On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 2:21 AM, Casey Brown <cbrown1023.ml at gmail.com>wrote:

> I am pretty sure that videos in .ogg (or another more easily playable
> format) are going to be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons soon.  BA is
> working on it, atm.
>
> In the interim, the videos on the stream can be played using Windows
> Media Player.
>
> On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 7:07 PM, Walter Vermeir <walter at wikipedia.be>
> wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I have not been to Wikimania but I do am interested in what was going on
> > there. And probably many people who did go also because you can not go
> > to  everything.
> >
> > 120 years ago some clever guy found a solution for exactly this type of
> > problem.
> >
> > About how this invention was used for the Wikimanias before 2008 have I
> > voiced in my newsletter my opinion last year;
> > http://en.wikizine.org/2007/08/year-2007-week-33-number-79.html
> >
> > For Wikimania 2008;
> >
> > There are archived videos online of the sessions.
> >
> http://webcast.bibalex.org/Home/List.aspx?Conference=6u0LkBzgNlZm+RzGhC/6Ag==
> >
> > This is the first Wikimania that this has happened. So far the good news.
> >
> > The location, Biblotheca Alexandrina, was presented as a very new, very
> > upscale world class and technological advanced location for a
> > conference. Having some expectations that the are able to provide video
> > recordings is not unreasonable.
> >
> > When I try to watch the video online it just does not work. I use Ubuntu
> > 8.04 / FF3.0
> >
> > On this blog can be find information about how you can watch the streams;
> > http://linuxawy.org/node/28
> >
> > ... and it works. At least for a while. Then the video stops in the
> > middle of a presentation.
> >
> > This is a deep url
> > mms://webcast.bibalex.org/WebCast/wiki-17-7.wmv
> >
> > to the board panel session. I was not able to find out how to download
> > it directly. I was able to open it with VLC and dump the file locally
> > and so make a local copy.
> >
> > This way it was possible to get behind the point where when streaming
> > the video breaks down. It seems that the video contains several points
> > where it is broken. The video stops but the audio keeps running. By
> > running the video forward a bit and back again you can get over the
> > break points.
> >
> > But even so I was not able to view the whole session because the file at
> > a certain point was empty. The videofile seems to be so bad that even
> > VLC can not swallow it.
> >
> > That is my user experience of "trying to view the Wikimanina 2008
> > recordings" for so far.
> >
> > Why is the WMF again still not able to do what any 12 year old with a
> > mobile phone seems to be able to do these days; make a movie and put it
> > on the internet in way that just works?
> > What is wrong with putting files on an ftp-server and posting the urls?
> >
> > --
> > Contact: walter AT wikizine DOT org
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> >
>
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