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TimedMediaHandler

Release status:Extension status stable

ImplementationTemplate:Extension#type Media, API
DescriptionTemplate:Extension#description Provides integrated support for server side transcoding, WebM, Ogg Theora, Vorbis, Speex and Timed Text
Author(s)Template:Extension#username Michael Dale, Jan Gerber, Tim Starling, James Heinrich, Brion Vibber, Derk-Jan Hartman
Latest versionTemplate:Extension#version 0.5.0 (2015-12-08)
MediaWikiTemplate:Extension#mediawiki 1.23+
PHPTemplate:Extension#php 5.3+
Database changesTemplate:Extension#needs-updatephp Yes
LicenseTemplate:Extension#license GNU General Public License 2.0 or later
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The TimedMediaHandler extension allows you to display audio and video files in wiki pages, using the same syntax as for image files. It includes the Kaltura HTML5 Player and and experimental VideoJS Player. There is support for subtitles and captions (aka Timed Text) and real time stream switching between multiple WebM and Ogg derivatives and many other features. TMH server side support includes options for uploading HTML5 audio and video, multiple transcode profiles to deliver content, Medata parsing for Ogg and WebM videos and integrates with mediaWiki's jobQueue system for scheduling transcoding jobs.

Feature Overview[edit]

See Commons:Commons:TimedText page.

Syntax synopsis[edit]

In addition to the image embed syntax, Timed Media Handler supports:

[[File:Video.ogv|File:Video.ogv]]
Display a video at its nominal size. Displays a still image from the midpoint with a play button to start an embedded player.
[[File:Audio.oga|File:Audio.oga]]
Show a placeholder for a sound file, with a play button to start an embedded player.
[[File:Video.ogv|thumb]]
Show a video in a floating thumbnail box
<gallery>File:Video.ogv</gallery>
Show a video embedded in an image gallery ( each clip will popup a dialog for the full player )
[[File:Video.ogg|thumbtime=1:25]]
Use a frame from 1 minute 25 seconds into the video as the placeholder image. A single number is taken as an offset in seconds.
[[File:Video.ogg|start=1:25]]
Temporal media fragments Displays a video clip starting at 1 minute 25 seconds into the video. A single number is taken as an offset in seconds. You can also include an end time of the form end=1:30 Which would result in a clip of 5 seconds playing from 1:25 to 1:30. If thumbtime is not provided, the start time will be used for the displayed thumbnail.
Deprecated
The syntax words noicon and noplayer are deprecated and do not function. The keyword disablecontrols will likely be deprecated soon. It takes the following values: options, timedText, fullscreen

Client support[edit]

Example video player
Example audio player
Wider audio player, showing progress bar

The player works on most modern browsers and supports IE9 and later (The modern browsers as described in MediaWiki's support matrix). Mobile support is spotty, especially on iOS.

As of August 2015, TimedMediaHandler includes a JavaScript compatibility shim for Ogg audio/video that works in Safari, Internet Explorer 10/11, and Microsoft Edge browsers.

Third-party users of MediaWiki may also wish to manually enable MP4 H.264/AAC support for native video and audio playback in Safari/IE/Edge, but when using these formats you may need a patent license from MPEG-LA for internet broadcasting.

Installation[edit]

Also see the README for detailed install instructions.

You will want a recent version of ffmpeg in order to support encoding to WebM ( with the latest version of VP8) and a copy of ffmpeg2theora to encode ogg videos. j^ supplies up-to-date static builds of ffmpeg with WebM support and of ffmpeg2theora for major OSs at firefogg.org/nightly/


// TimedMediaHandler is dependent on mwEmbedSupport 
require_once "$IP/extensions/MwEmbedSupport/MwEmbedSupport.php";
// TimedMediaHandler
require_once "$IP/extensions/TimedMediaHandler/TimedMediaHandler.php";


The extension will automatically add supported file types (except mp4) to $wgFileExtensions, so you do not need to manually add video file types.

Comparison of Wikipedia media encoding options[edit]

Sorted by bandwidth tier (grayed items are not currently enabled):

Bitrate Mbit/s Ogg Theora WebM VP8 WebM VP9
Very Low 0.16 160p15 160p15
Low 0.25 240p 360p
Moderate 0.5 240p 360p 480p
Medium 1.0 360p 480p 720p
High 2.0 480p 720p 1080p
Very high 4.0 720p 1080p

Detailed options:

Name 160P 240P 360P 480P 720P 1080P 160P 360P 480P 720P 1080P 2160P 360P 480P 720P 1080P 2160P
Container Ogg WebM
Video Encoding Theora VP8 VP9
Max width (pixels) 288 426 640 854 1280 1920 288 640 854 1280 1920 4096 640 854 1280 1920 4096
Max height (pixels) 160 240 360 480 720 1080 160 360 480 720 1080 2160 360 480 720 1080 2160
Bitrate (Mbit/s) 0.16 0.5 1.0 2.0 - -- 0.16 0.5 1.0 - - - - - - - -
Quality - - - - 6 6 - - - 7 7 - - - - - -
Audio Encoding Vorbis Opus
Channels 2 (stereo)
Sampling rate (Hz) 44100
Quality -1 1 1 2 3 - - 1 2 3 - - - - - - -

Configuration[edit]

Here are the configuration variables and their default settings:

// Show a warning to the user if they are not using an html5 browser with high quality ogg support
$wgMwEmbedModuleConfig['EmbedPlayer.DirectFileLinkWarning'] = true;

// Show the options menu:
$wgMwEmbedModuleConfig['EmbedPlayer.EnableOptionsMenu'] = true;

// TMH needs java ( no h.264 or mp3 derivatives )
$wgMwEmbedModuleConfig['EmbedPlayer.DisableJava' ] = true;
$wgMwEmbedModuleConfig['EmbedPlayer.DisableHTML5FlashFallback' ] = true;

// The text interface should always be shown
// ( even if there are no text tracks for that asset at render time )
$wgMwEmbedModuleConfig['TimedText.ShowInterface'] = 'always';

// Show the add text link:
$wgMwEmbedModuleConfig['TimedText.ShowAddTextLink'] = true;

// How long you have to wait between transcode resets for non-error transcodes
$wgWaitTimeForTranscodeReset = 3600;

// The minimum size for an embed video player ( smaller than this size uses a pop-up player )
$wgMinimumVideoPlayerSize = 200;

// Set the supported ogg codecs:
$wgMediaVideoTypes = array( 'Theora', 'VP8' );
$wgMediaAudioTypes = array( 'Vorbis', 'Speex', 'FLAC', 'Opus' );

// Default skin for mwEmbed player
$wgVideoPlayerSkinModule = 'mw.PlayerSkinKskin';

// Support iframe for remote embedding
$wgEnableIframeEmbed = true;

// If transcoding is enabled for this wiki (if disabled, no transcode jobs are added and no
// transcode status is displayed). Note if remote embedding an asset we will still check if
// the remote repo has transcoding enabled and associated flavors for that media embed.
$wgEnableTranscode = true;

// If the job runner should run transcode commands in a background thread and monitor the
// transcoding progress. This enables more fine grain control of the transcoding process, wraps
// encoding commands in a lower priority 'nice' call, and kills long running transcodes that are
// not making any progress. If set to false, the job runner will use the more compatible
// php blocking shell exec command.
$wgEnableNiceBackgroundTranscodeJobs = false;

// The priority to be used with the nice transcode commands.
$wgTranscodeBackgroundPriority = 19;

// The total amout of time a transcoding shell command can take:
$wgTranscodeBackgroundTimeLimit = 3600 * 8;
// Maximum amount of virtual memory available to transcoding processes in KB
$wgTranscodeBackgroundMemoryLimit = 2 * 1024 * 1024; // 2GB avconv, ffmpeg2theora mmap resources so virtual memory needs to be high enough
// Maximum file size transcoding processes can create, in KB
$wgTranscodeBackgroundSizeLimit = 3 * 1024 * 1024; // 3GB

// Number of threads to use in avconv for transcoding
$wgFFmpegThreads = 1;

// The NS for TimedText (registered on MediaWiki.org)
// http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_namespace_registration
// Note commons pre-dates TimedMediaHandler and should set $wgTimedTextNS = 102 in LocalSettings.php
$wgTimedTextNS = 710;

// Set TimedText namespace for ForeignDBViaLBRepo on a per wikiID basis
// $wgTimedTextForeignNamespaces = array( 'commonswiki' => 102 );
$wgTimedTextForeignNamespaces = array();

// Set to false to disable local TimedText,
// you still get subtitles for videos from foreign repos
// to disable all TimedText, set
// $wgMwEmbedModuleConfig['TimedText.ShowInterface'] = 'off';
$wgEnableLocalTimedText = true;

/**
 * Default enabled transcodes
 *
 * -If set to empty array, no derivatives will be created
 * -Derivative keys encode settings are defined in WebVideoTranscode.php
 *
 * -These transcodes are *in addition to* the source file.
 * -Only derivatives with smaller width than the source asset size will be created
 * -Regardless of source size at least one WebM and Ogg source will be created from the $wgEnabledTranscodeSet
 * -Derivative jobs are added to the MediaWiki JobQueue the first time the asset is displayed
 * -Derivative should be listed min to max
 */
$wgEnabledTranscodeSet = array(

	// WebM VP8/Vorbis
	// primary free/open video format
	// supported by Chrome/Firefox/Opera but not Safari/IE/Edge

	// Medium-bitrate web streamable WebM video
	WebVideoTranscode::ENC_WEBM_360P,

	// Moderate-bitrate web streamable WebM video
	WebVideoTranscode::ENC_WEBM_480P,

	// A high quality WebM stream
	WebVideoTranscode::ENC_WEBM_720P,

	// A full-HD high quality WebM stream
	WebVideoTranscode::ENC_WEBM_1080P,


	// Ogg Theora/Vorbis
	// Fallback for Safari/IE/Edge with ogv.js
	//
	// Requires twice the bitrate for same quality as VP8,
	// and JS decoder can be slow, so shift to smaller sizes.

	// Low-bitrate Ogg stream
	WebVideoTranscode::ENC_OGV_160P,

	// Medium-bitrate Ogg stream
	WebVideoTranscode::ENC_OGV_240P,

	// Moderate-bitrate Ogg stream
	WebVideoTranscode::ENC_OGV_360P,

	// High-bitrate Ogg stream
	WebVideoTranscode::ENC_OGV_480P,

/*
	// MP4 H.264/AAC
	// Primary format for the Apple/Microsoft world
	//
	// Check patent licensing issues in your country before use!
	// Similar to WebM in quality/bitrate

	// A least common denominator h.264 stream; first gen iPhone, iPods, early android etc.
	WebVideoTranscode::ENC_H264_320P,

	// A mid range h.264 stream; mid range phones and low end tables
	WebVideoTranscode::ENC_H264_480P,

	// An high quality HD stream; higher end phones, tablets, smart tvs
	WebVideoTranscode::ENC_H264_720P,

	// A full-HD high quality stream; higher end phones, tablets, smart tvs
	WebVideoTranscode::ENC_H264_1080P,
*/
);

$wgEnabledAudioTranscodeSet = array(
	WebVideoTranscode::ENC_OGG_VORBIS,

	//opus support must be available in avconv
	//WebVideoTranscode::ENC_OGG_OPUS,

	//avconv needs libmp3lame support
	//WebVideoTranscode::ENC_MP3,

	//avconv needs libvo_aacenc support
	//WebVideoTranscode::ENC_AAC,
);

// If mp4 source assets can be ingested:
$wgTmhEnableMp4Uploads = false;

// Two-pass encoding for .ogv Theora transcodes is flaky as of October 2015.
// Enable this only if testing with latest theora libraries!
// See tracking bug: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T115883
$wgTmhTheoraTwoPassEncoding = false;

// List of extensions handled by Timed Media Handler since its referenced in a few places.
// you should not modify this variable

$wgTmhFileExtensions = array( 'ogg', 'ogv', 'oga', 'flac', 'wav', 'webm', 'mp4' );

$wgFileExtensions = array_merge( $wgFileExtensions, $wgTmhFileExtensions );

//
// The following are deprecated or  no longer valid options in newer versions.
//

// Path override for cortado ( by default its false and uses hard coded paths relative to TMH
// or the predefined path on upload server: http://upload.wikimedia.org/jars/cortado.jar
// Removed in 1.26 and later
$wgCortadoJarFile = false;

For transcoding, make sure you have $wgMaxShellMemory, $wgMaxShellTime, $wgMaxShellFileSize are large enough to allow encoding jobs to run and save output. Default values are most likely too low.

Running transcode jobs[edit]

Because transcode jobs are resource intensive they will not run as part of normal job queue ( see bug 29336 ) Instead they must be requested by the --type argument:

php runJobs.php --type webVideoTranscode


Encoding nodes[edit]

To be able to transcode many videos you might want to run multiple encoding nodes that connect to the master db and access your file store directly. If you are using ubuntu lucid (10.04) you should add this ppa and install php5-cli php-pear imagemagick ffmpeg ffmpeg2theora.

Minimal install under Ubuntu 12.04[edit]

add-apt-repository ppa:j/timedmediahandler
apt-get install php5-cli php-pear imagemagick ffmpeg ffmpeg2theora

In Localsettings.php, add the path for PEAR !

ini_set( "include_path", ".:$IP:$IP/includes:$IP/languages:/usr/share/php");


Road Map[edit]

Notes[edit]

These notes about the status of TimedMediaHandler were shared by Jan Gerber at the end of his consulting agreement for WMF on 27 September, 2013:

Since you asked in the last meeting to write up an overview of the current state of TimedMediaHandler, here we go:

August 2015 update[edit]

Brion and TheDJ are starting up some new maintenance on TImedMediaHandler:

Done:

Todo 'small':

Todo 'medium':

Todo 'large':

Todo 'long-term':

See also[edit]


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