Forum:Local video issues

Hi, I've recently started uploading Theora OGV video to Wikia for local embedding but encounter few problems that don't present in Wikimedia projects.

1) If I upload the video by the extension OGV, the video won't load anyway. But after I rename the extension as OGG the same video can be played correctly in Wikia.

2) The lack of preview image / poster frame of the video like in Youtube is kinda misleading to unfamiliar reader. No matter I add the  like in Wikimedia, no preview image is generated.

3) The video won't load in comment, gallery or pop-up preview plate.

There are substantial reasons I prefer to upload the video file to Wikia rather than embedding video from other website like Youtube, so I'm really looking forward to these issues to be addressed, probably in the next update of Wiki software. Thank you. -- Inpursuit (talk) 09:43, May 23, 2011 (UTC)


 * As I understand, Wikia doesn't actually store videos - they do something else with them. I'm not sure what Wikimedia projects do with videos, but you may want to compare Special:Version for Wikia and Special:Version for Wikimedia, and see if anything stands out.


 * Wikimedia uses an extension called OggHandler, which does actually require you to actually upload a file to the File namespace. Then, of course, you're able to insert into pages like you would any "file", with a couple of extra goodies which are detailed in the link. Wikia's video "upload" tool isn't really an upload tool at all. :P The idea is so that Wikia wikis can show videos from a variety of video hosting sites in a more standard frame, and to be able to categorise them internally. However, Wikia also does have OggHandler installed, and so in theory those same files should also work here, which is obviously what Inpursuit has tried to do. This makes me suspect that there's something wrong with Wikia's installation of OggHandler. I could be wrong about that, but the best bet at this stage is to contact staff about the issue. The 888th Avatar   (talk)  12:49, May 23, 2011 (UTC)