[GRASS-user] mediawiki: recorded desktop sessions

[Alex Mandel]

On 04/25/2011 03:25 AM, Martin Landa wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I would like to allow uploading recorded desktop sessions to our
> Mediawiki as embedded files in wiki pages.
> 
> I found recordMyDesktop [1] as a good choice for recording sessions.
> This software produces OGV file [2].
> 
> At this point I have problem to find suitable mediawiki extension
> which would enable embed OGV file into wiki pages. I found
> TimedMediaHandler [3], see demo page [4] which is quite working.
> Unfortunately it requires Mediawiki version 1.17. We are using stable
> 1.16. Would be acceptable for you to switch to 1.17 (well, wikipedia
> ignores stable versions without any problems [5]). Or could you
> suggest at this point another solution? Any experience with that?
> 
> Thanks in advance, Martin
> 
> [1] http://recordmydesktop.sourceforge.net/about.php
> [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogv
> [3] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:TimedMediaHandler
> [4] http://prototype.wikimedia.org/timedmedia/Main_Page
> [5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Version
> 
> --
> Martin Landa <landa.martin gmail.com> * http://geo.fsv.cvut.cz/~landa

Uploading videos can be problematic in all sorts of ways. My suggestion
is to take advantage of 3rd party video hosting options (ex: vimeo) and
then using their embed methods to include them in pages.

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:EmbedVideo

Enjoy,
Alex