Video Going Open Source on Wikipedia

In a recent interview, Wikimedia deputy director Erik Moller talks about the site’s upcoming suite of editing tools and sharing options. “Although videos have been part of the Wikimedia stable for a couple years through the open-source Ogg Theora format, the offering has been limited. Now, however, a Firefox 3.5 plugin called Firefogg will allow for server-side transcoding to the Ogg format. In addition to allowing for downloading and editing, the Ogg format also consumes significantly fewer resources during video playback. The linked article also indicates that there are other video sites (apart from Wikimedia and Dailymotion) that are moving to the open standards format for video, noting that “hundreds of thousands of public domain videos from sources such as the Internet Archive and Metavid will be available in the new format”.

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