Video support for more file formats

[islandora-devops]

Video support for more file formats

[whikloj]

I think this is just configuration at least for some of the above listed movie types. When testing video derivatives I just edit the file field of the video media type and add "mov" to the acceptable extensions. It works fine.

[rosiel]

Probably! This ticket is partly here to do tests like that.
Smarter people than me would know better, but I suspect that it's not the extension (container format) that will affect whether ffmpeg can handle the file, as much as the audio/video(?) codecs. That true?

[DonRichards]

From the tech call: I think the way forwards is a 2 part approach.

1. Test to see what common formats are already useable when the dot extensions are added to Drupal.
2. Create a list of formats and using that list create PRs to add the necessary codecs/libraries to add to the buildkit.

Common formats:

• .WEBM
• .MPG, .MP2, .MPEG, .MPE, .MPV
• .OGG
• .MP4, .M4P, .M4V
• .AVI, .WMV
• .MOV, .QT
• .FLV, .SWF
• AVCHD

For a bigger list check Wikipedia

Most formats don't need to be web-accessible, the service file derivative on the other hand does.

1st part is a manner of documenting the findings and possibly adding a PR to add all of the extensions to isle-dc/Playbook automatically by default.

2nd is documentation and an example of how to add an external library to the buildkit.

[rosiel]

Several more file types added with #59