Video:hosting

Goal: Develop a standard way for hosting video at Mozilla.

Needs

• Full browser support
  • Add video to Frontend Standards
• Central video archive
• Minimize code duplication
  • Lots of different projects are finding the need for video uploads. They shouldn't have to duplicate the upload, archive, or embedding code
• Easily extensible / themeable
  • e.g. project X needs to upload videos of a certain type only, and needs user name and email along with each upload

Wireframe

• Upload page
  • saves to videos.mozilla.org
  • saves record to DB, for archives
    • multiple upload using file API would be nice

• Encoding
  • For full browser support, we'll need at least OGG and MP4
  • (need to decide which formats we'll accept. licensing concerns here)
    • More specifically, Theora/Vorbis in OGV and H.264/AAC in MP4 (licensing concerns here)
  • Would prefer to have several encodings for each video
    • High Bitrate (full frame size, full frame rate, high quality encoding)
    • Medium Bitrate (some trade off between frame size, frame rate, and quality encoding)
    • Possibly audio only
  • Optional "pass through" that doesn't do any encoding on the original file assuming it's already in the appropriate format(s)

• View page
  • Video player with full browser support
  • Easy copy/paste code for embedding

• Archives
  • Ability to find uploaded videos, by...
    • Name
    • Date
    • Project? Category?

Questions

• How does Flash video work?
  • Do we need a license or other proprietary purchase?

Resources

• http://camendesign.com/code/video_for_everybody
• http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.5.3/firstrun/

Timing

Still deciding...probably an initial demo ready sometime in early November