Creative Commons Aotearoa New Zealand discussion

[Leigh Blackall <leighblackall AT gmail.com>]

This is what I see in the Archive HTTP directory:

CreativecommonsKiwi_files.xml                      10-Jul-2011 01:00                1159
CreativecommonsKiwi_meta.xml                       10-Jul-2011 01:00                1429
ccKiwi.mkv                                         09-Jul-2011 23:37            90566484
ccKiwi.webm                                        09-Jul-2011 23:34            72164296

I'm not familiar with mkv or webm, but am reading up about them on Wikipedia. It seems Archive's in-browser viewer can't handle them either.

What I would normally have done is, upload original AVI/MP4/WMV to Archive, and wait for it to generate a compressed MP4 and Ogg in the directory. Usually takes about an hour or so, and they get listed in the main page. Then I download the Ogg and put it up on Wikimedia Commons.

On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 11:34 AM, Danyl Strype <strypey AT disintermedia.net.nz> wrote:

Kia ora koutou

I have uploaded the Ogg Theora and WebM versions of the ccKiwi video
to Archive.org:
http://www.archive.org/details/CreativecommonsKiwi

Wikimedia Commons doesn't current accept WebM or Matroska (.mkv)
container files. If anybody wants to transcode the MP4 from Vimeo into
Theora with a .ogg container and upload it to Wikimedia, go for it!

User-friendly free code software to use for file conversions:
GNU/ Linux: Arista Transcoder
www.transcoder.org

Mac or Windows: Miro Video Converter
http://www.mirovideoconverter.com/

I'll keep seeding the torrents from my computer until the end of the
day, in case anyone else wants to download it that way. Does anyone
know how to create a .torrent that will allow a swarm of people to
download from Archive.org using BitTorrent?

Hei kōnā

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