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Enable Matroska and WebM containers on Wikimedia sites
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I think we should enable support to upload Matroska and WebM (WebM being a profile of Matroska, using VP8 video and Vorbis audio).

Matroska files are much more suitable for re-use (especially editing) than already supported OGG container format.

File extensions/mime types for Matroska:

.mka audio/x-matroska
.mkv video/mkv video/x-matroska
.mk3d video/x-matroska-3d

File extensions/mime types for WebM:

.webm audio/webm
.webm video/webm

http://www.matroska.org/technical/specs/notes.html

http://www.webmproject.org/code/specs/container/

Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement
Whiteboard: aklapper-moreinfo

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Make job_name a mandatory param and default error_destination with itrepos/data-engineering/eventutilities-python!36ottojob_name0main
error.py - improve error messagesrepos/data-engineering/eventutilities-python!29ottoT326536_error_event_improvement0main
Add minimal CLI parameterization for stream descriptorsrepos/data-engineering/mediawiki-event-enrichment!14ottominimal-argseventutilities-python-version-bump
FlinkStreamManager error process function handling and error event sideoutputrepos/data-engineering/eventutilities-python!25ottoT326536_error_eventmain
EventDataStreamFactory - add row_file_sink methodrepos/data-engineering/eventutilities-python!23ottoT326565_file_sinkmain
Refactor FlinkStreamManager constructionrepos/data-engineering/eventutilities-python!22ottoT326536_FlinkStreamManager_refactormain
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 ResolvedNoneT31176 Show transcode status (progress, success, errors) on File: pages for TimedMediaHandler
 ResolvedNoneT31175 Record progress, success/failure state of transcodes in DB for TimedMediaHandler
 ResolvedNoneT31178 Need way to re-run failed transcodes after some manual intervention
 ResolvedNoneT31182 Video thumbs not centered in gallery, Special:NewFiles with TimedMediaHandler
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 ResolvedNoneT31184 Mysterious failure in 720p WebM transcode
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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Low.Nov 21 2014, 11:50 PM
• bzimport added a project: Wikimedia-Site-requests.
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saper created this task.Aug 31 2011, 9:07 AM
• brion added a comment.Aug 31 2011, 5:30 PM

Adding bug 27699 (deploy TimedMediaHandler ext) as dependency, as that's what adds WebM support and automatic transcoding.

saper added a comment.Aug 31 2011, 11:07 PM

TimedMediaHandler is a cool thing, what I was thinking about is just possibility to upload .mkv files as plain binary files, to facilitate editing by those who download it from Commons.

Sure, having them streamed and subtitled would be a cool thing, but that comes next. I also understand that we without the media handler we can't meaningfully [[File:...]] them into a wiki.

McZusatz added a comment.Nov 9 2012, 1:11 PM

Bug is fixed?

Aklapper added a comment.Feb 5 2013, 11:26 AM

Marcin: Is this fixed by the TMH deployment in November 2012?

Aklapper added a comment.Feb 27 2013, 4:52 PM

Marcin: ping?

Nemo_bis added a comment.Apr 4 2013, 10:21 PM

Yes, I'd call this fixed. WebM is a subset of Matroska, I don't think that any full Matroska support is in the works and probably it will never be (for instance we want subtitles to be separate from the file, don't we).

Kozuch awarded a token.Dec 17 2014, 8:08 PM
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