Posts Tagged video
New Media Features Gadget
Posted by Michael Dale in wikimedia on October 10th, 2009
I would like to announce that some of the new media features are now available in gadget form on Wikimedia Commons and the English Wikipedia. These include a new ogg player, the add media wizard, and firefogg upload support. I hope having these components in gadget form will enable some more testing and feedback :)
Getting Started to enable these components you must turn on the mwEmbed gadget. You can turn it on by visiting your preferences page. Once you enable the gadget you should shift reload to ensure you have a fresh copy of the JavaScript. (note you will need to enable the gadget for each wiki you want to test (ie both for wikimedia commons and Wikipedia). Once enabled you can check out the following features: Read the rest of this entry »
Scaling Wikipedia Mobile
Posted by Hampton Catlin in wikimedia on July 29th, 2009
Some of the things I learned about new projects and scaling issues.
BTW, I think we can settle that Ruby applications don’t have to be slow. Far from it.
Follow me on Twitter @hcatlin or @WikimediaMobile
Firefox 3.5 brings native open video support
Posted by brion in open-source, wikimedia on June 30th, 2009
Congralutations are in order for our friends and comrades-in-arms at Mozilla: they’ve released version 3.5 of their open-source Firefox browser today.
Aside from major improvements to speed and memory usage, one of the updates that has got us most excited at Wikimedia is the support for HTML 5’s native <video> and <audio> elements.
What does this mean? Well in short, it means that Firefox 3.5 is the best browser to run video and audio clips from Wikimedia Commons on!
A few months more down the line, we’ll start being able to integrate support for our inline video sequencer, which’ll make it easy to extract snippets of a longer video and combine them — entirely using open-source, non-patent-encumbered web standards. This makes heavy use of the new HTML 5 multimedia support; while at first editing will be limited to Firefox 3.5 users, other browsers are continuing to improve and adopt the same support.