[Wikipedia-l] Video uploaded...

[Magnus Manske]

Suggestion:
* upload an ogg and a divx/xvid/mpeg/whatever version
* link to a page that contains links to the ogg and the alternate 
version, as well as links for downloading the respective codecs

I still haven't gotten the "heat to beat" :-(

Magnus


Andre Engels wrote:

>I still protest the policies on this point. In the name of freedom, we
>are enforcing a non-standard format, giving people extra problems to
>just hear and see the sound files and videos on Wikipedia. Wikipedia
>should be there for the normal internet user, not just for tech-savy
>open-source-loving nerds.
>
>My computer when seeing a .ogg-file, automatically assumes it's a
>sound file, and thus I cannot see this movie. I know there are others
>who don't even have software for .ogg-soundfiles. We are much too
>strict on this point. What should bother us is not whether there are
>any patents on a certain format, but whether free software exists to
>play it. Where that is the case (for the most common platforms, or at
>the very least for Windows and Unix), rejecting files because their
>format is supposedly non-free is doing a disservice to our readers and
>writers with no actual advantage to compensate for it.
>
>Andre Engels
>
>
>
>On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 16:04:44 +1100, Robert Graham Merkel
><robert.merkel at benambra.org> wrote:
>  
>
>>In the grand tradition of actually getting things done on Wikipedia,
>>Wikipedian KSheka, with some assistance from myself to convert the video
>>to Theora, has gone ahead and uploaded a video of an "echocardiograph
>>demonstrating systolic anterior motion of the anterior leaflet of the
>>mitral value", which, translated, I think means "a video of a beating
>>heart with a valve that's moving wrongly"
>>
>>You can see the article with the uploaded video at
>>
>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertrophic_cardiomyopathy
>>
>>Now we actually *have* a video in a patent-unencumbered codec uploaded
>>to Wikipedia, and the ability to make more of them (transcoding to Theora
>>is pretty straightforward once you've got ffmpeg2theora installed), the
>>discussion about video I posted at http://meta.wikimedia.org/Video_policy
>>becomes a little more directly relevant...
>>
>>>From my point of view, I'd be very interested in people's thoughts on
>>what we should do to make best use of video (one thing that comes to
>>mind is that we should always take a still from the video as
>>illustration, but more thoughts are good)...
>>
>>Oh, and has there been any progress on implementing code for an approval
>>process?
>>
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>>"And James Hird has just gone after Robert Harvey...that's like Bambi
>>attacking Bambi"
>> -- Gerard Whately, Essendon vs. St Kilda, 3/4/2004
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