Re: [Debconf-video] request for comments: html5 videos and youtube

On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 5:58 PM, Laura Arjona Reina <larjona@larjona.net> wrote:

El 9 de agosto de 2016 17:16:12 CEST, alberto fuentes <pajaro@gmail.com> escribió:
>In order to upload videos to amara I need html5 compatible videos
>
>About 1/4 of the videos on the archive is not html5 compatible (mainly
>old
>.avi and .mpeg)
>
>Ive been told that no re-encoding is going to be done, so the simpler
>more
>sane thing for me to do next is to upload them to youtube
>
You can upload them to a mediagoblin instance, no need to use youtube or other nonfree services.

You can sign up in goblinrefuge.com

Or ping me if you want an account at media.larjona.net

I'm not sure why upload to youtube/mediagoblin is needed, probably we can do the re-encoding ourselves. I have a machine 24x7 up where to send the corresponding commands, ping me and we can figure out things.

Thanks for taking interest on this laura!

The re-encoding in itself is not a big problem. Its nice that goblinrefuge does it on upload so i dont have to become an expert on formats

The biggest problem I see is space. Are they going to be able to host at least 1/4 (maybe more) of meetings-archive? I need them to be hosted somewhere in some html5 compatible format

As a nice side effect of this (either goblinrefuge or youtube), there will be some nice web interface for meetings-archive where people can watch the videos and have the subtitles integrated

Having something like this up for the archive has been talked before. Maybe using something like whats used in pyvideo.org

Some people start to think that amara is the canonical place to watch the videos with the subtitles, even tho is only a tool to create them, because no alternative exists to watch them online

I dont wish to work on this for now tho. Just uploading the missing videos somewhere else so i can link them is sidetracking me enough for now. I just chose youtube because I believe I can get what I need out of this relatively fast :)

PS: semi-related FYI. The current available rss feeds do not have the whole set of videos available for the events they suppose to show. (source: I tried to use it to import some videos and compared it with my own hand-crafted rss which take the video list scraping meetings-archive)