Mozilla promises to help Wikipedia achieve video support

Linux recently held in Hobart. conf. at the AU Annual Meeting, Wikimedia developer Michael Dale announced that the Mozilla Foundation had promised to provide a $0.1 million sponsorship to help develop Ogg theora video encoding technology on the server side. The sponsorship will help enhance Ogg theora encoding technology within six months, including improved network search functions and libraries for clients and servers for Firefox and mediawiki.

During the HTML5 development, we noticed that on the server side, we had a lot of work to do. Dale said that the video playing library xiph for Firefox was mainly developed by volunteers before, now we are sending full-time staff to enhance the encoder so that theora can be updated with the latest decoder as soon as possible.

Dale said Wikipedia will provide manpower to integrate these components and eventually they will become the open-source mediawiki WikiProgram. These enhancements to mediawiki will be completed in May this year, when users can run their own collaborative video servers.

Software for Wikipedia collaborative video sharing, annodex of Australia
The developer Conrad Parker will spend one day a week developing the server-side network search function to speed up the server-side network search. Parker
He will improve the overall search speed of the network, and he will work with the W3C Media Working Group to develop open standards. He will be responsible for the server-side transactions of annodex.

Annodex is a technology that provides time and metadata tags for videos. It is transparent to the network in applications and can use URLs.
Define the playback point of a video so that users can swim directly in the video. Parker said they are using free software.CommunityThere is a lot of collaboration, users can
Specify the corresponding time period by querying the string, so that the video in the corresponding time period can be played on the handheld device or other clients.

In addition, links or information tags can be added to videos to bind to a massive database of Wikipedia. For example, a tennis video can contain tags related to tennis information. Parker said that the user interface service is a web program and can be completely independent from the video service. Open video is important because it makes videos as easy to watch as text and images, said Dale.

Although the main problem currently exists is the degree of acceptance, as archive.org converts more than 0.1 million videos to the Ogg format and Wikipedia supports open formats, things will change rapidly. Dale said a tool called firefogg would directly decode the uploaded video in a browser.

Wikipedia is also using JavaScript to develop a web-based GUI
To edit the video to make it easier to share the video content. Because our platform is
Therefore, we can see that the browser-based video editing tool directly leads the distribution of video content. It also makes it easier for open-source desktop programs to integrate with web programs.

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