On 20 March 2012 20:02, Lars Aronsson <l...@aronsson.se> wrote: > I'm not opposed to trying H.264, but I doubt it will solve our problem, > which is that we have too few videos. > The category:Videos from Sweden (an early adopter market) is now at > 110 files, which is a ridiculously small number. It has doubled each > year (30 in 2010, 52 in 2011), but that growth is too slow to reach > any significant numbers in the next 2-3 years. I don't see that lack > of H.264 playback is slowing this down, that mechanism isn't clear > to me. > I think that converting whatever comes out of my camera into > something that Commons will accept is part of the problem. This does > not imply that H.264 needs to be stored on Commons, only that > whatever is uploaded gets converted by the server rather than by > the user before upload.
Yes. That's the biggest barrier to participation. We need to be able to ingest whatever comes out of people's cameras. > I was hoping that we would organize video competitions, but I have > held back, because I don't see any crowd with camcorders in their > hands. Now, if we get there in 2013 or 2014, and then discontinue > H.264 playback in 2015, we could be in for a real backlash. This is an excellent argument against making ourselves hostage to the MPEG-LA. Giving people like that any leverage over Wikimedia strikes me as a *spectacularly* awful idea. (foundation-l added to cc: - changing the encumbered formats policy is not a matter to be quietly decided over on a tech list.) - d. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
