This is a poll to vote on whether to allow an embedded video player on Wikinews, made especially for Wkinews by Symode09. Embedded videos will not be used for every article (or at least not in the near future) but, will be used as a way to publish video wikinews which is not almost in shooting. The format is popular, fast loading (the preview is on a sluggish server and, is stoll fast loading. The quality is low because I stretched the video. (vidoe owned by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
The security would not be a problem - It would be hosted within wikinews. A mock up of what it could possibly look like is located here.
If the video player is set up within wikinews (the mock up of what it could look like is set up and has no external sections. only a safe core and, then you simply need to upload the video... no linking etc like youtube. It would be extremely safe.
UPDATE
If we allow an embeddable player, there willbe two made (to cater for the wider community), the video will play in a java and a flash flayer. Please reassess your vote. --Symode09 01:42, 14 April 2007 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Flash video will not be accepted on the site at this time given the current licensing and patent issues. (There is some lanning for conversion to Theora on upload if there isn't a legal issue there, and we are going to go ahead and finish integrating the Java player as well.) --brion 20:38, 13 April 2007 (UTC)Reply[reply]
This is really of secondary importance. we have the java player on the toolserver, the content will be cc-by, so they can also go on other sites as well (officialy or non-officialy is a discussion we can have later), seeing as we don't actually __have__ content as of yet, perhaps we should concentrate on that first. Bawolff ☺☻ 04:53, 14 April 2007 (UTC)Reply[reply]
The board has always been very clear about the requirement that our materials be accessible with free software. Proprietary-only formats and formats which cannot be worked with legally without a patent license have always been explicitly forbidden.
If you would prefer to ask the board to restate that instead of taking the CTO's word for it, feel free.
There are free software, non-Sun implementations of Java which can run the Cortado applet (itself open source); Sun is also in the process of open sourcing their own Java implementation. The patents covering the Theora codec were opened when it was made free (from its predecessor codec VP3), so Theora sidesteps the patent issues in MPEG-4, H.263, etc.
Hence the preference for Theora with a Java player.
As far as I know, the Flash player only supports patent-encumbered video formats at this time (eg H.263). If someone can point out otherwise, and if free software alternatives (eg the GNASH free software Flash player plugin) as well as Adobe's proprietary Flash plugin can play it, then that would be good to know about. :) --brion 13:07, 16 April 2007 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Wikinews:Poll: Allow an embedded Player?