On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 2:32 PM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
Just curious as to the state of video ingestion in MediaWiki - I know we were planning to do something such that video users could upload whatever comes out of their phone or camera, and of course WebM was released two years ago and support in MediaWiki has apparently been waiting just on this.
So what's the state of play?
Roughly: this is waiting on TimedMediaHandler extension to make it through sufficient review, testing, and deployment.
TimedMediaHandler replaces the inline player from our more limited OggHandler extension, and adds in transcoding abilities -- that's what you want for being able to take arbitrary input and get Ogg/WebM/whatever out "hands-off".
There are probably still things to fix in it, but it needs some actual WMF resources assigned to it for that to happen; Erik can probably shed more light on this.
<warning: patent politics question may lead to offtopic bikeshedding> Additionally there's the question of adding H.264 transcode *output*, which would let us serve video to mobile devices and to Safari and IE 9 without any custom codec or Java installations. As far as I know that's not a huge technical difficulty but still needs to be decided politically, either before or after an initial rollout of TMH. </warning>
-- brion