-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 10/04/13 02:22 PM, Sebastian Hellmann wrote: > Well, I guess this should be researched quite well, before > investing time in this feature: > ... > > from > http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/FOSS_Open_Standards/Comparison_of_File_Formats#WAV > > > > So who wants "wav" files actually, they are normally very large as > well. > > The legal status is not so obvious. Maybe you even need a lawyer > to judge this correctly. Again, is .wav really so popular, that it > justifies the effort? > > All the best, Sebastian
wav, being lossless and uncompressed, is popularly used as a 'staging format' by many varieties of software. It is likely Rahul is interested in using wav because that is the raw output codec of an existing js recording library, and so the script would not need to further process the data. I believe you might guess from the wav standard being included in the wikibook on FOSS Open Standards that while the standard is maintained by Microsoft and IBM, it is not encumbered by licenses for writing tools to use it. On the other hand, Commons does not currently allow wav files. "On Wikimedia Commons, the file types we accept are: Ogg (using FLAC, Speex, Opus or Vorbis codecs), WebM (using Vorbis), or MIDI (with extension .mid)"[1] Rather than spend time petitioning commons to support wav files, I would suggest the tool be implemented with the current regime. Keeping the format-shifting a modular system may allow for future changes to the commons regime. Amgine [1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:File_types#Sound -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJRZeVqAAoJEBGze5c9ley69KYIAJDq11oBbKmOlcrLwTW/oFLV jMc5bz0x8V9u1oXaPVQ16WhH8SDXs1Bd3UkeMOovPW8CPYHrVsYtwW3oKJPI0+Jr zEtjdeo+KKG2NNV5mypI2S1oztcSehkevgQOOXfPTuQDHMhtSW23RVyZiWvAzfse loRGNzQyB3Z4Ytl1spUOQ22dt3qtySzso5U0mIRTogbWexqyrXnLKYR/04AP/9jv rqtoCLf8075JDJ09YSpZR2svJYaa8ml266BQuH4hbi7NjwwWIvuRAIZvK72Y7ddp r1gWA+Resh++BsPMbjuXTp2YoTm/bCw37PoCy56dZdeV4g6ekOHxYoKNmlVkxQ0= =/Swi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Wiktionary-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiktionary-l
