Commons:Requests for comment/Technical needs survey/Video conversion support

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Video conversion support

Description of the Problem

• Problem description: New users who attempt to upload videos in MP4 format, a very common video format, are met with an error message that provides no guidance on how to convert the video to an acceptable format. The current video conversion tools, such as Video2commons, are frequently nonfunctional. This likely results in many users not uploading files that would be of use to Commons.

• Proposal type: feature request

• Proposed solution: The file upload wizard should offer to perform a conversion to an acceptable file type whenever a user attempts to upload an MP4 file.

• Phabricator ticket: phab:T353659

• Further remarks: See prior discussion recently.

Discussion

Courtesy pinging Sannita (WMF), who has discussed this with us. Cheers, {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 05:57, 19 December 2023 (UTC)

Votes

•  Support.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me}🇺🇦 09:52, 22 December 2023 (UTC)
•  Support --Yann (talk) 14:21, 2 January 2024 (UTC)
•  Strong support The converted video should have a reasonable very high quality for archiving purposes, and lower quality levels for lower resolutions --PantheraLeo1359531 😺 (talk) 10:02, 5 January 2024 (UTC)
•  Strong support --Packa (talk) 01:02, 22 January 2024 (UTC)
•  Support --Yann (talk) 12:09, 22 January 2024 (UTC)
•  Support Abzeronow (talk) 16:44, 22 January 2024 (UTC)
•  Support Pi.1415926535 (talk) 23:33, 22 January 2024 (UTC)
•  Support — Draceane ^talk_contrib. 08:29, 23 January 2024 (UTC)
•  Support Анастасия Львова^ru/en 11:18, 23 January 2024 (UTC)
• yes.--RZuo (talk) 13:39, 23 January 2024 (UTC)
•  Support Maybe we would then need a restriction similar to what we have for MP3 (only users with autopatrol or higher rights can upload MP3 due to concerns about the capacity of the community to monitor for copyright violations); currently, uploading video files is that difficult and cumbersome that the video uploaders are mainly experienced contributors who are usually cautious regarding copyright issues. But we certainly should have a way to upload videos reasonably easily, without having to either convert them first using an external tool, or relying on video2commons which seems to be broken more often than not. Gestumblindi (talk) 01:02, 30 January 2024 (UTC)
•  Support per Gestumblindi Alachuckthebuck (talk) 16:37, 30 January 2024 (UTC)
•  Support —Yahya (talk • contribs.) 09:48, 31 January 2024 (UTC)
•  Support per Gestumblindi --Hadi (talk) 20:36, 3 February 2024 (UTC)
•  Support. I hope this would be easy to implement. SWinxy (talk) 03:04, 6 February 2024 (UTC)
•  Support --ToprakM ^✉ 15:02, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
•  Support The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 00:10, 13 February 2024 (UTC)
•  Support Gnangarra 09:36, 13 February 2024 (UTC)
•  Support. --Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 00:34, 14 February 2024 (UTC)