OMwiki:Tech

Revision as of 04:16, 18 September 2009

Known issues:

(Listed in order of severity.)

• Videos don't always start playing automatically after 'play' icon is clicked. Bumping the seek marker slightly to the right helps. Might be related to doActualPlay in nativeEmbed.js.

• Find a way to add style="width:352px;" to embed code in 352×240 streams.

• Search works but has a few issues (punctuation stripped, 'play inline' plays audio although video is paused, search-by-date not yet enabled for all videos)

• Edit MediaWiki:Common.js to download animated gifs only when 'show' is clicked to avoid long page loads.

• Video playback might take ~6 seconds to start for timecodes towards the end of the meeting (pending seeking support in oggz-chop)

• Cinelerra-CV is buggy (compilation from source helps)

Scripts needed:

• Retool download_from_archive_org.php to work with different source videos and meta tags from the Internet Archive. Simultaneously generate Media RSS <items> from the same information, and insert date_start_time into mv_streams.
• Script to import MetaVidWiki clips from apps that can produce .srt or .cmml captions (e.g., Gnome Subtitles)
• Find a command-line script that produces .torrents that include multiple HTTP seeds, no tracker, a comment, and works with Mainline.

New Features

• Email thread on MetaVid-l

• Implement a Vorbis-only option on video streams for low-bandwidth connections.

• Think about replacing animated GIFs with low-FPS, clickable, enlargeable Theora. Alternatively, use Pad.ma-style mouse-overs (see $(imagePoster).load(function() {...})).

• YUV4MPEG support in Blender, to send to ffmpeg2theora (email thread)

• Automated speaker recognition by frame tagging, corroborated by voice profiles

Communicate:

• Join and post to MetaVid-l
• Join #metavid and #mediawiki

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