On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 12:41 AM, Gregory Maxwell<gmaxw...@gmail.com> wrote: > geni geniice at gmail.com wrote: >> I assume you are pointing to the "Downpreffed VLC because it crashes >> my browser all the damn time -- TS" comment. >> Still another problem with recommending an option is well when this happens: >> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Videoscreengrab_of_Morris_C8_towing.ogv >> As you can see following the recommended course of action results in a >> far from idea experience. Now to be fair [[File:Morris C8 towing.ogv]] >> is known to cause problems when played but it does work on the VLC >> plugin with firefox 3.0 at least on my system. > > Mozilla is quite responsive. (I fixed quite a few video bugs prior to release) > > But in this case there doesn't appear to be any real firefox problem. > > You've got a >6mbit/sec Ogg/Theora file. The stalling is because > firefox doesn't prebuffer and your connection isn't fast enough to get > ahead of it. Once the file is transferred moving the playhead back to > the start gives smooth video. > > Prebuffering can be achieved by setting the autobuffer parameter > before playback begins. The current way video is launched by the site > defeats that. Other playback methods will hold the initial playback > until some buffer has filled, so they don't exhibit the same behavior. > > This situation can be improved by managing the buffering process using > JS or simply making good use of autobuffer. > > But the real flaw here is expecting a 6mbit/sec file to stream… > Unfortunately until we have some trans-coding infrastructure that will > remain a problem. > > I was thinking about running a bot to take all uploaded videos shrink > them to 480px (if larger) and encode at reasonable streaming friendly > bitrates, then uploading back as filename_thumb480 and replacing them > in articles. I'm not sure how people will feel about that but it will > greatly improve video playability without encouraging people to upload > at low qualities which are completely unsuitable for editing.
I presume there's no way to thumbnail them in a way analogous to how images are thumbnailed? Thanks, Pharos > _______________________________________________ > 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
