Help talk:Media (audio and video)/Archives/2006

Special:Playmedia
Also, could we make a page called, um, let's say, Special:Playmedia with &lt;embed&gt; tags that cause Firefox to automatically download an appropriate player, just like Firefox does now with Flash for users who don't have the Flash plugin yet? --unforgettableid | talk to me 07:45, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

Links to this page
Can I suggest that this page is linked as standard to all the ogg media files pages? I have been using wikipedia for 6 months but have never used an audio/video file because i had no idea how to make my computer play them. In the end i had to search externally on google to find this page--84.12.21.104 00:33, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Every article that uses any ogg audio/video is supposed to use the audio or video template, both of which link prominently to this page. How were you getting to our media without encoutering the template? Raul654 02:25, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

Saving
Okay, I can now play Ogg files, but how can I save other files as them? --OGoncho 07:13, 27 April 2006 (UTC)


 * You need an Ogg Vorbis encoder (or an Ogg Theora encoder if you want to encode video). I just use  but you'll probably be more comfortable with something like Audacity. —Keenan Pepper 13:03, 27 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Thanks. --OGoncho 21:17, 27 April 2006 (UTC)


 * CDex (Windows) and abcde (Linux) also support creating ogg files. I have found them easier to use for this purpose than Audacity. --Geekdog 13:35, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

Playing Ogg files in iTunes
Would it be worth including instructions to install the Xiph.org QuickTime components, which should allow the playback of Ogg files in iTunes? I'm asking, rather than just adding it to the page, because it's not an official addon from Apple, and hence it's possible that it'll be broken by Apple at a future update of iTunes. Mike Peel 03:28, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
 * User:Raul654 seems to be reverting all edits that put this into the page. The reason given is that only software which can play both the audio and video versions of Ogg should be listed. I would disagree with this - I use iTunes for audio playback, and VLC for video playback, and only half the help for this setup is available here.
 * I would propose that we list methods for getting Wikipedia content to work in as many mainstream programs as possible (by 'mainstream' I mean used by a reasonable amount of people). We're not making recommendations here, as that's biased; we're providing help for users. Whether the program is capable of playing audio, or video, or both should be mentioned at the top of the instructions for that software. Mike Peel 12:13, 1 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Wikipedia contains both ogg vorbis and ogg theora (and is, to my knowledge, the only site on the internet that does so). Due to a profoundly bad decision on their part - to use the same extension, .ogg, for both, operating systems will default to a single program to play both. We will *not* be listing players here that can only play half of these, because that will only lead to complaints from viewers that they followed the instructions and couldn't play a certain file. Raul654 16:37, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the explaination. Mike Peel 18:05, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
 * As of XiphQT 0.1.5, iTunes can play both Vorbis audio and Theora video fine, as I have tested on Mac OS X. It should also work fine on Windows, but as I do not have a Windows computer to test with, I'm only going to be re-adding the guide for iTunes for Mac OS X for now. On a related note, since any QuickTime player (and there are a dozen or so on the Mac) can use these components, maybe it should be written like the DirectShow entry for Windows, or GStreamer for Linux? But the only other QuickTime player I can think of that's worth linking to is NicePlayer... --Dicey 08:04, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

Recommended Players
For reference, j^ on IRC #theora says on 28--Sept--2006:


 * GChriss: Media help (Ogg) <-- Is this page complete and up to par?
 * j^: or os x it should list http://xiph.org/quicktime/
 * j^: oh it does under itunes, confusing
 * j^: and mplayer sure is not the number one choice, quicktime or VLC are
 * GChriss: j^: mind if I quote you on that? the page doesn't make a recommendation per se, but it would be fine on the talk page
 * j^: you can quote me sure, the order was suggesting a recommendation to me
 * j^: oh and it should be Ogg not OGG
 * j^: all over

GChriss &lt;always listening&gt; &lt;c&gt; 16:55, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

So, HOW do I play OGG files?
I've never been able to get these audio files to work. I click on the pronunciation link, the file downloads, but my computer can't find the proper player, and when I click "search the internet for the appropriate program" I just get a page that loads blank. When I click "download programs" on the help link next to pronunciation I just get a list of players that either I already have or seem redundant to what I already have. I just don't get what I'm supposed to do. CClio333 02:56, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Follow the instructions on this page. Raul654 16:17, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Could you be more specific? Do you mean the Media Help (Ogg) page? Because nothing on that page addresses my problem. CClio333 21:20, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Look for step 7 under the Windows tutorial. Does it help?-- Saoshyant  talk / contribs (I don't like Wikipedophiles) 11:00, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

Sample Video Post on Wikipedia
Can someone please send me a link to a video posted on Wikipedia?

I've been looking for the last 20 minutes, and I cannot seem to find a sample of this Ogg video format.

Please help.

Thanks, Kyle


 * I've uploaded a few hundred to commons. See Komodo dragon, for example. Raul654 16:32, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

Time For Downloads
Instead of saying 'this should take about X minutes on 56k connection (which is becoming increasingly rare now; even in NZ, which has some of the worst internet connectivity in the world, many people now have good broadband), why don't we just say how big the file is? This would allow people to make the simple deduction themselves how fast it would take, depending on their highly variable internet connections.

I also don't like that less than 2 minutes has been bolded for WMP, it looks more like an ad from MS than a wikipedia article like that. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Richard001 (talk • contribs) 07:38, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

MPlayer Windows GUI
The Windows version of MPlayer now has a GUI. I'll update the page accordingly. Now that a command line is not required, I'll remove the references to advanced users who are familiar with command line usage. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.235.58.55 (talk) 03:31, 11 December 2006 (UTC)