[Foundation-l] We should permit Flash video playback

[geni]

On 7/21/07, Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> So the 10 GBit/s seems to have been based on a projection, but they
> also seem well poised to scale to meet any needs we may have.
>
> The best way to start a relationship, IMHO, would be to support an
> embeddable player for all the content the Internet Archive currently
> hosts which is compatible with our licensing policy. That would
> require transcoding those collections to Theora in addition to the
> currently supported formats.

"Le voyage dans la lune" is availble in Mpeg4 and divX. I fail to see
why we would want to support either format.


> If the user experience with those initial videos is good, I really can
> see no convincing reason why we would want to take the load of scaling
> up to terabytes of video content on our own. That seems to be a
> classic case of "not invented here" syndrome - the Archive is
> increasingly acting as a kind of non-profit hosting service, and if
> they can serve our needs in the particular area of video, for free, it
> seems irresponsible to ask our readers for donations instead, if
> there's no real added value.

Videos over our size limit tend not to be encyclopedic.


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geni