Archive.org do this and I know the tech team at least have previously had meetings/discussions with them.
Regards Mark On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 11:02 PM, Samuel Klein <meta...@gmail.com> wrote: > We should do this (reencode all major formats to ogg). It would > absolutely make more educational material available to commons. > > We can make the service available at a reasonable rate now without > worrying about what happens when thousands of uploaders use it every > day, and deal with issues as they arise. As for legal concerns, > Dailymotion is managing bulk conversion just fine. We can ask them if > they have to jump through any hoops. > > SJ > > On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 1:25 PM, David Gerard<dger...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 2009/6/7 Brian <brian.min...@colorado.edu>: > > > >> I think there are two issues for a proprietary -> non-proprietary > converter: > >> 1. The conversion software itself must be FLOSS. > >> 2. The format being converted must have an open specification (Flash > being a > >> good example of one that might be allowed to be converted). > > > > > > The first is easy: ffmpeg. It converts pretty much anything to pretty > > much anything. This is what I mean when I say that the technical side > > of such a thing would verge on the trivial. (Modulo a sufficiently > > CPU-endowed box for transcoding.) > > > > The second - if ffmpeg have worked out the format, it's hardly any > > sort of secret any more. > > > > I think it's something that would be worth doing to get more > > educational material into free formats and in a repository (Commons) > > that could spread them to the world, even if they did start in an > > encumbered format. > > > > > > - d. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > foundation-l mailing list > > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
