On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 4:45 PM, Tanvir Rahman wrote:
> formate. So, I think most of the YouTube videos need to be converted to ogv
> (from mpeg or flv). Can we do that automatically with script?
ffmpeg and or mencoder can do this,
in theory it could run on toolserver, but those tools burn cpu big
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 6:24 PM, Aryeh Gregor
wrote:
> 2011/6/3 Jon Harald Søby :
> > The only reason I can see for not allowing embedding is that
> > embedding would be promoting YouTube
>
> Embedding YouTube videos in Wikimedia content would send IP addresses
> and other information about Wikimed
2011/6/3 Jon Harald Søby :
> The only reason I can see for not allowing embedding is that
> embedding would be promoting YouTube
Embedding YouTube videos in Wikimedia content would send IP addresses
and other information about Wikimedia users to Google. This is
against Wikimedia's privacy policy,
Jon Harald Søby wrote:
> With the news that YouTube will start letting users choose to upload their
> videos under CC-by, what will be the way we deal with it? Should we open for
> embedding videos directly from YouTube, or should they be uploaded to
> Commons first? The only reason I can see for n
No, we don't. Our video support is laughable.
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 8:09 AM, David Gerard wrote:
> On 3 June 2011 15:45, Tanvir Rahman wrote:
>
> > We have uploaded images from Flickr, and Commons supports image formates
> > like, jpg, png, svg, and others, but for videos it supports only ogv
>
> WebM videos on YouTube are in a free format. Do we accept WebM yet?
>
>From Commons page [1]: "WebM support will likely be added in the future. See
this bug report [2] for its current status and this test wiki [3] for
implementation tests."
So, as of now, we don't support WebM. :S
Regards,
On 3 June 2011 15:45, Tanvir Rahman wrote:
> We have uploaded images from Flickr, and Commons supports image formates
> like, jpg, png, svg, and others, but for videos it supports only ogv
> formate. So, I think most of the YouTube videos need to be converted to ogv
> (from mpeg or flv). Can we d
We have uploaded images from Flickr, and Commons supports image formates
like, jpg, png, svg, and others, but for videos it supports only ogv
formate. So, I think most of the YouTube videos need to be converted to ogv
(from mpeg or flv). Can we do that automatically with script? Currently we
have F
With the news that YouTube will start letting users choose to upload their
videos under CC-by, what will be the way we deal with it? Should we open for
embedding videos directly from YouTube, or should they be uploaded to
Commons first? The only reason I can see for not allowing embedding is that
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