Comments on: New Media Features Gadget

By: Bill Rankin

Bill Rankin — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:24:48 +0000

What will the fallback option be if Firefogg is unable to convert the video? Also, it’ll probably be useful to log media information regarding unsuccessful encodings.

By: Michael Dale

Michael Dale — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:44:30 +0000

the firefogg encode settings are currently:

encoder_settings:{
‘maxSize’ : ’400′,
‘videoBitrate’ : ’544′,
‘audioBitrate’ : ’96′,
‘noUpscaling’ : true
},

This may shift to much higher quality once we have a derivatives extension in place. That way a single File resource can be represented by several files at different bitrates.

By: mahanga

mahanga — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 04:46:51 +0000

What encoder settings are being used for conversion by FireOgg? I uploaded the same fil to test.wikipedia and tinyvid.tv and got different file sizes (wikipedia’s was about 20% smaller).

By: Michael Dale

Michael Dale — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:59:49 +0000

In terms of multi-lingual support I should have something ready shortly that lets us request a given language of the js via the script-loader.

In terms of subtitles… this is something I also want to get in there soon as well. I have some code to support subtitles from the metavid.org work … but the interfaces need to be updated for multi-lingual subtitle translation and contribution.

By: Joe

Joe — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 12:56:36 +0000

What about subtitles?

It would be awesome if sub-titles in multiple languages could be added to video and audio so they can be searched and so they can be used in different language wikis.

By: Tim Ruijters

Tim Ruijters — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 09:14:42 +0000

Great features! Hope they will be available soon! Also in the Dutch wikia’s :-)