Video:hosting

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Goal: Develop a standard way for hosting video at Mozilla.

Contents

1 Needs
2 Wireframe
3 Questions
4 Resources
5 Timing

Needs

Full browser support
- Add video to Frontend Standards
Central video archive
Minimize code duplication
- Lots of different projects are finding the need for video uploads. They shouldn't have to duplicate the upload, archive, or embedding code
Easily extensible / themeable
- e.g. project X needs to upload videos of a certain type only, and needs user name and email along with each upload

Wireframe

Upload page
- saves to videos.mozilla.org
- saves record to DB, for archives
  - multiple upload using file API would be nice

Encoding
- For full browser support, we'll need at least OGG and MP4
- (need to decide which formats we'll accept. licensing concerns here)
  - More specifically, Theora/Vorbis in OGV and H.264/AAC in MP4 (licensing concerns here)
- Would prefer to have several encodings for each video
  - High Bitrate (full frame size, full frame rate, high quality encoding)
  - Medium Bitrate (some trade off between frame size, frame rate, and quality encoding)
  - Possibly audio only
- Optional "pass through" that doesn't do any encoding on the original file assuming it's already in the appropriate format(s)

View page
- Video player with full browser support
- Easy copy/paste code for embedding

Archives
- Ability to find uploaded videos, by...
  - Name
  - Date
  - Project? Category?
  - Do we need to determine what lives in the video container and what we store separately in our database http://wiki.xiph.org/Metadata http://atomicparsley.sourceforge.net/

Questions

How does Flash video work?
- Do we need a license or other proprietary purchase?

Resources

Timing

Still deciding...probably an initial demo ready sometime in early November

ok, that passed ;) how about late November

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