[Wikipedia-l] Theora / ogg usage

[Andrew Lih]

Actually, one more movie:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d5/Jack-russell.mov

It's a Quicktime movie with the On2 VP3 codec.

So kind of pre-Theora. :)

-Andrew (User:Fuzheado)


On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 03:57:59 -0500, Sj <2.718281828 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> An old theme just came up on the Wikipedia mailing list again :
> Wikipedia strongly
> encourages[1] using theora encoding, strongly enough that I don't think we
> currently host any other video encodings...[2] however, most users know
> how to make and edit and play mpegs, and find theora hard to work with.
> 
> http://mail.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2005-March/038244.html
> 
> Perhaps the theora-dev list can help us overcome our technical problems so
> that we have a reasonable choice in setting policy...
> 
> SJ
> 
> [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Video_policy  (could use better
> theora information)
> [1.1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Multimedia (ditto, also better ogg
> information)
> 
> [2] Article containing one of the only known video files on Wikipedia :
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertrophic_cardiomyopathy
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