Youtube makes a ton of sense. Why reinvent the wheel? Just let Youtube take care of it for you, and embed Youtube videos on appropriate Mediawiki pages.<div><br></div><div>Aren<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 7:12 PM, Hamish <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hamish_b@yahoo.com">hamish_b@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im">Martin wrote:<br>
> well, you are right. Anyway the major drawback of using 3rd<br>
> party video hosts is that we will loose possibility to<br>
> control/backup such video files. If such hosting service<br>
> remains unavailable we will lose all videos, links to the<br>
> video files became broken on our wiki.<br>
<br>
</div>I'd expect the likes of youtube to have better uptime, disk<br>
space, & bandwidth than us :)<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> Moreover the user will need to create his/her account on<br>
> such video hosting service.<br>
<br>
</div>a small cost? does simply having a gmail account allow you to<br>
upload to youtube or picasa*, or is another acc't req'd for that?<br>
<br>
[*] then you can have both images and movies in your tutorial,<br>
imagine expanding Lorenzo's getting started guide with a<br>
few movies in between slides.<br>
<a href="http://grass.bologna.enea.it/tutorial/" target="_blank">http://grass.bologna.enea.it/tutorial/</a><br>
<br>
<br>
It's worth mentioning that some previous GRASS tutorial<br>
screencasts have used flash video format,<br>
<a href="http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/Promotional_material#Video" target="_blank">http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/Promotional_material#Video</a><br>
<a href="http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/Movies#Q:_How_to_create_a_screencast_.28for_video_tutorials_etc.29.3F" target="_blank">http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/Movies#Q:_How_to_create_a_screencast_.28for_video_tutorials_etc.29.3F</a><br>
<br>
<br>
I have no big opinion on the matter, but I wonder how Ogv (ogg<br>
theora [+ vorbis]) stacks up against WebM [+ vorbis] for this<br>
sort of thing? I guess you can upload WebM to youtube directly?<br>
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<br>
Hamish<br>
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