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How can I post powerpoint presentations to an enterprise Wiki??

This entire page seems to have been written for nerds, by nerds. Can anyone explain in plain English how to listen to Ogg files? I've never read such unhelpful tips!!

--> Easy. Download Winamp, free-of-charge from the Internet. I'm sure you've heard of this media player program. It plays Ogg Vorbis files for your listening pleasure. Cheers, AppleJuggler 04:18, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

I believe Ogg Theora files in commons should have their extension changed

I've seen that some users have a lot of problems when dealing with Theora video files, one of the biggest is the file extension. The .ogg file extension normally applies to audio, so in most opearting systems a user downloads the file and the audio player starts it, because .ogg is associated with it. This is a big problem, because the average user won't know s/he should be using a video player instead.

Unofficially, the .ogm extension is used for Theora, and this is a good idea, because many video players can recognize this extension as theirs.

I believe this issue should at least get a voting. Should Jimbo Wales be contacted?

--Saoshyant 13:20, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

Video

I seem to remember a discussion about using video media on wikipedia, but can't find it. Does anyone recall where it is? I have some .avi files that I think would be a welcome addition.. what (if anything) can I do with them? Pete

Spreadsheets

We seem to have a policy that the Image: namespace is just for images. And sounds and movies. But definitely not Word documents or anything like that. However, I have a couple of Excel spreadsheets here I think should really be uploaded to Wikipedia. They're for editorial convenience, not content. I could put them offsite, but then permanance wouldn't be guaranteed. One is the spreadsheet I used to generate the inorganic compound property tables: it has a really handy macro to merge the spreadsheet with wikitext. The other is the spreadsheet I used to generate Image:Articles per day 20030418.png. Both would be very useful to anyone wishing to extend or improve my work. How would people feel if I uploaded them? -- Tim Starling 14:41 Apr 25, 2003 (UTC)

It's a pity I can't do something like this due to a legal issue. A transparent copy of a VBA macro is no use to anyone, so there's not much point in me making one. Anyone who has Excel would prefer an XLS file, and anyone who doesn't have it can't use it anyway. Note that meta is covered by GFDL as well, so Martin's suggestion of uploading it there would be no better.

The virus issue worries me less -- it would have to be a pretty clever virus to escape both my attention and recently-updated McAfee's attention. It's theoretically possible but I haven't heard of anything like it -- all the VBA viruses I've read about are much too simple to pull off anything like that. Anyway, wherever I upload it, someone will eventually have to get over their paranoia and click on "enable macros". -- Tim Starling 05:27 Apr 26, 2003 (UTC)

I am also thinking about uploading a database to wikipedia. The database does do some fairly trivial computation but couldn't be sensibly replaced by an html table. It's purpose is to help balance the number of news resources on wikipedia: News sources by the population of the countries involved. I am writing it in open office. In this instance could I upload it in open offices standard format. I imagine that the issues mentioned above are less problematic with open offices format? Barnaby dawson 21:28, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

I would like to upload Excel files demonstrating the computations on the financial articles. As a first example I uploaded PV example.xls , but now I understand that it is not allowed. Maybe the virus issue can be solved by not allowing VBA? It is a pity that such examples will not be availaible to the public. --YoavD 07:15, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

What about Open Office XML documents?

Since MS Office 2007's file formats are open standards, should the .xlsx (Excel 2007) format, and other Office 2007 formats (like .docx for MS Word 2007), be allowed here? I would not recommend allowing the .xlsm and any other .***m formats even though they are open formats, because those extensions signify that macros are contained, and macros can contain malware. With the MS converter for older versions of Office, it should be trivial to generate Open Office XML documents. Jesse Viviano 04:57, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

MPG and Quicktime

Thomas Edison

I would like to upload : Cattle driven to slaughter / Thomas A. Edison, Inc. ; producer, James White as an example for both the cattle article, and the motion picture history article. It is in both MPG(4mb) and Quicktime(1mb). Should I upload the MPG? Its in public domain as it was created in 1897. I assume thta Wikipedia would not be friendly towards proprietary formats like quicktime. See the Library of Congress site where I downloaded it Greenmountainboy 21:36, 17 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Flash

Is it possible to upload a flash-file? On the danish Wikipedia we are making a portal for children. On that page it would be fun to have a collage of pictures leading to different articles. Because it is for children it would be fine if it was animated to some extend too.

- Malene (admin on the danish Wikipedia) (62.107.100.2 07:56, 2 Aug 2004 (UTC))

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Flash

Thanks Supposed 16:34, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

Discussion on video policy, please comment.

In response to some new developments, I'd like comment on a possible update to the currently-outdated meta:Video policy. Please comment on the discussion here, as this involves all Wikimedia projects. grendel|khan 13:14, 2005 Jan 3 (UTC)

Pronunciations in articles

Recently user Amitst added Image:Monkey.ogg and Image:Marmalade.ogg, which are simply pronunciations of the words, and added links to the Monkey and Marmalade articles. This seems inappropriate to me—surely this would be more appropriate in Wiktionary or something—but I've been hesitant to remove them because I haven't been able to find an actual policy against it. Is it safe to say that these have no place on Wikipedia and should be removed from the articles? —Cleared as filed. 03:38, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

Recent Revert

I've gone ahead and reverted this edit because it's far, far out of place on this page. This page is not for discussing royalties, patent law/software patents , 'etc - it's simply a page listing free (gratis) software availble to do the job we need done. I don't have any objections if someone wants to rewrite the recent changes to fit the demeanor of this page. →Raul654 01:37, August 11, 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured sound candidates

Please have a look at this proposal and comment on its talk page. Thanks.--Pharos 04:08, 11 August 2005 (UTC)

How to use ffmpeg2theora

For those of us who don't understand a single word at the "examples" page of the ffmpeg2theora site, it would be nice with a hint on how to use it. Jon Harald Søby \ ^{no na} 18:36, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

Here's the super-executive summary of how to use ff2mpeg for windows:

1. Save ffmpeg2theora to your desktop
2. Go to start -> run
3. Type "cmd" and hit enter. A black screen will pop up. This is the command prompt
4. Drag the ffmpeg2theora icon (the one on your desktop) into the window. The ffmpeg2theora's location will be copied into the command prompt window
5. Click the window and hit the space bar once (to put a space a after the address)
6. Drag the file you want decoded (let's call it xyz.mpg) into the command prompt window
7. Click the command prompt window and hit enter
8. Assuming you did everything correct, ffmpeg2theora will convert the file. The new location will be xyz.ogg. →Raul654 19:45, September 3, 2005 (UTC)

MP3 format illegal?

The newsgroup message at that link implies that the only legal MP3 players cost money, and that “all major players on all major operating systems” can play Ogg. The first is incorrect, and the second is just backwards. iTunes is free. Windows Media Player is free. And those are just the most popular of the thousands of MP3 players/encoders (some free, some not) available for every operating system. As far as I know, neither of those programs can play Ogg. The only program on my Mac that can is VLC Player, and I had to find and download that.
Wikipedia talk:Sound is full of debate, with holes on both sides of the argument, and I’m just looking for a definitive answer. Is there a reason for this decision that’s based on actual facts? —Frungi 03:15, 4 November 2005 (UTC)

Suggested bit rate for audio?

Is there a suggested bit rate for ogg audio files? --Fritz S. (Talk) 14:09, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

How to edit and convert Quicktime to Ogg Theora on Windows

Here's a method for converting Quicktime movies

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