Closed maflcko closed 2 years ago
Should we just host the video ourselves?
I am not sure if that is worth it, considering how many visitors are reading the archived posts from years ago. So I am not going to spend time on that myself. Maybe best done in a follow-up by someone else?
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Should we just host the video ourselves?
But where? And how? At the least we don't want to have a huge file like that in the repository.
With apple refusing to support webm and some Linux distros refusing proprietary codecs, it is still non-trivial to ship a video. (Not to mention that downscaled version would need to be provided for low-CPU devices).
Hosting and transcoding could be done by Wikimedia Commons (given a CC-license). They were even working on a in-browser video player, but I haven't checked the status of it recently.
Anyway, best something to be done in a follow-up, if at all.
Yes, agree, merged to remove another unnecessary source of legal uncertainty.
With apple refusing to support webm and some Linux distros refusing proprietary codecs, it is still non-trivial to ship a video. (Not to mention that downscaled version would need to be provided for low-CPU devices).
Especially if further transcoding is involved, it would make sense to hunt after the original video file (from the author) instead of downloading it from youtube.
Don't send the visitor IP to google without asking. Also, don't allow google to set cookies, execute javascript etc without asking the visitor for consent. Also, fixes #850