Community Wishlist/Wishes/Multiple audio tracks for the same video/en
Description
Wikimedia and Wikipedia are known for their multilanguage approach, offering more than 300 language versions. However, when uploading videos, we are still limited to the regular one language per file approach. This have changed a little with SVG translate (which still is not widely used), but video uploading is more difficult. The current approach for dubbing a video is downloading the original video, converting it from .webm to .mp4, dubbing it, converting again to .webm and uploading it, losing quality in every conversion and making the process complex and not appealing.
We could be the first massive service to offer multitrack videos, adding a selector to the videos, where you can choose the language you want to use for the video. This would make video reusing easier, improve underserved languages (as it is easier to upload an audio file than a full video) and would be a very interesting improvement to our ecosystem.
This has also been requested in Commons' Technical needs survey.
Assigned focus area
Unassigned.
Type of wish
Feature request
Related projects
Wikimedia Commons, Wikipedia
Affected users
translators, underserved languages