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Package OGVKit for CocoaPods (iOS Ogg Vorbis/Theora playback library)
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Brion has written an iOS library for playing Ogg Vorbis/Theora media files https://github.com/brion/OGVKit based on the ogv.js JavaScript project. To be easily usable in Wikimedia's official or unofficial iOS app(s), this needs to be packaged up for CocoaPods so we can easily drop it in the project. Some initial steps have been done but it still needs some fixes and to be published.

(Note an alternative is using MobileVLCKit but we've had trouble getting a build that's reliable and small enough yet. Recommend using OGVKit for the near-term.)

Steps:

  • clean up the user-exposed interface a bit
  • make sure pause/continue work!
  • [optionally: get seeking working with update of internals from ogv.js]
  • publish to CocoaPods repo

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• brooke created this task.Mar 5 2015, 8:29 PM
• brooke claimed this task.
• brooke raised the priority of this task from to Low.
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• brooke added projects: Wikipedia-iOS-App-Backlog, Multimedia.
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• brooke added a parent task: T68722: [iOS app] Some media (esp. video) files do not work.Mar 5 2015, 8:29 PM
• brooke added a parent task: T91658: Hacking: Wiki Radio.
• Deskana moved this task from Needs Triage to Tracking on the Wikipedia-iOS-App-Backlog board.Mar 9 2015, 9:42 PM
• brooke added a comment.Jun 17 2015, 10:06 PM

I'm making really good progress on OGVKit the last couple weeks (including WebM playback which is higher-quality than Ogg Theora for videos); hope to have it in a state ready to test integration in the app by the end of the month.

Still need to tweak seeking into place and replace in-memory buffering with on-storage buffering.

Jdforrester-WMF moved this task from Untriaged to Backlog on the Multimedia board.Sep 4 2015, 5:53 PM
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• brooke mentioned this in T111995: Support new AppleTV (tvOS) in Wikipedia iOS app.Sep 9 2015, 8:02 PM
Jdforrester-WMF removed a project: Multimedia.Sep 21 2015, 4:21 PM
• brooke added a comment.Oct 30 2015, 6:00 AM

I did some fixes today to switch to the dynamic framework mode in CocoaPods, which is needed to integrate with an app that uses Swift frameworks. Should be able to start patching Wikipedia-iOS new branch to experiment with video, and will be able to finalize an updated release based on that experience. :D

• brooke mentioned this in T68722: [iOS app] Some media (esp. video) files do not work.Mar 28 2016, 9:53 PM
• brooke added a comment.Jan 29 2018, 7:40 PM

Bump -- am doing cleanup on OGVKit this month, with an eye towards prepping it for CocoaPods deployment and patching into the iOS app. Note we no longer need Ogg support as badly since we're now shipping patent-free MP3 audio, but will still need the WebM support for videos.

LGoto removed a project: Wikipedia-iOS-App-Backlog.Aug 27 2019, 8:05 PM
Aklapper added a subscriber: LGoto.Sep 1 2019, 12:21 AM

@LGoto, @brion: Can you please associate at least one active project with this task (via the Add Action... → Change Project Tags dropdown)? This will allow others to get notified and see this task when looking at the corresponding project workboard. Thanks.

Aklapper added a project: Video.Sep 16 2019, 12:26 PM

@Brion: No replies from anyone within two weeks. Feel free to change the assigned project tags here (via the Add Action... → Change Project Tags dropdown) by adding an active project tag. See previous comment.

Aklapper removed • brooke as the assignee of this task.Jun 19 2020, 4:30 PM

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• brooke closed this task as Declined.Jun 22 2020, 6:17 PM

I'm closing this one out as I'm retiring the incomplete but mostly working OGVKit in favor of recommending MobileVLCKit. It's more mature and better supported, and these days has better build tools than when I started.

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