WikiVideoMedia

This page aims to organizes various discussions on the future of audio video media in wikipedia and its sister projects.

Technically: video if widely used will add an order of magnitude to bandwidth and storage needs.
Legally: video fair use is a bit more complex than text and images, also securing free open content versions of things can be challenging. We may have to push on fair use a bit more than in other mediums (audio/images)?
Technically: theora video has very limited client support the java player is a good start but there will still be a long way to go towards making it as friendly as "flash video".

A rough road map for the future of video as it relates to wiki projects.

get basic Embed Video code integrated with the mediaWiki codebase.
External Video Hosting/importing:
- contact with archive.org, and push for
  - copyright tags
  - ogg theora video conversion
  - archive.org annodex installation for dynamic time range requests.
metavid as a source for external audio/video + meta data

improve mediaWiki support for user contributed video
- better upload interface
- technical infrastructure questions?
External video segment reference:
- build/test metavid mediaWiki extension ( dynamic segment and sequence embedding) target audience: “congresspedia”. This will let us test wiki video integration in the wild on a smaller scale with relatively restricted content source (house and legislative proceedings).

build a collaborative video annotation, sequencing and Meta data “templating” system, either as an extension to mediaWiki or as a separate entity ie develop metavid standalone rather than integrate it)
- Video sequencing would be a ajax drag and drop sequencer where the source is a list of urls.
video templates are similar to what we have in metavid as overlays they let you write simple scripts on real-time metadata from audio/video streams, for example taking the given speaker and getting campaign finance info about them.
In the mediawiki context video annotated with wiki url namespace video would list relevant articles, info boxes, images, system queries being pulled up in real-time as the video metadata interacted with the given template/lenses you were viewing the video with.

Getting inline video working in mediaWiki software: see Embed_Media Mdale’s summer of code project.

General ogg thora playback support is pretty well supported see: Playing_Theora_videos

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