Forum:Ogg Videos?

Before I started up the Zeldapedia [www.youtube.com/ZeldapediaVideo Youtube page], I uploaded a few videos as .ogg files. The idea was kinda dropped because at the time only Chrome had native playback of these files. With the next versions of browsers coming around, native support of .ogg files is becoming more common. We still have at least on of the files still on the site: I have tested it out and it works natively in Chrome and Opera 11. I also tested it in IE9 Beta but it only played back the sound from the video. I haven't tested Safari or Firefox but I would assume that Firefox 4 will pry have support for it.

While using these files wouldn't be practice until they worked in all major browsers, I figured I would start the discussion on possible future uses for .ogg video files. Were we now have the Youtube page, there pry isn't a need to have videos uploaded. However, there might be instances where there are videos we want for the Wiki but really don't fit into how we have the Youtube page structured.

When I initially uploaded those .ogg video files there were some other issues. At the time Wikia would only allow .ogg files to be uploaded. However, the videos are natively .ogv files but can be made to be .ogg files. I talked to Wikia about this and they said they would look into adding both .ogv and .oga (audio specific) support. Now it appears that Wikia does allow for .ogv uploads. I'm not sure if it would change anything but it might fix issues with how it plays back in some browsers. If people think there is a use for having .ogg video or .ogv files, then I could upload a test video of that is .ogv to see how it differs if any.

While maybe not practice now, I think it could be something useful. I think it is worth consideration, and I'm curious on what peoples thoughts are; good, bad, or otherwise. Please feel free to discuss. --Birdman5589 (talk) 04:52, January 21, 2011 (UTC)

Discussion
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Advantages

 * Adding the videos to a page is just like how images are handled. This can lead to easy resizing, scroll over text, alignment, etc.
 * Since it is a file on the site, there is no issues with a video buffering and playback and scanning is almmost instantaneous.

Disadvantages

 * Not all browsers, including mobile, currently have native playback.