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Remove oggThumb from TMH
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I suggest we remove oggThumb from TimedMediaHandler. This tool was used in the past because it avoided problems with frame selection that ffmpeg had with ogg/theora, but these issues have long since been fixed.

As far as I'm aware, WMF does not use this any longer and relies solely on ffmpeg and I doubt anyone else has a reason to use it.

Event Timeline

Change 791084 had a related patch set uploaded (by TheDJ; author: TheDJ):

[mediawiki/extensions/TimedMediaHandler@master] Remove unused oggThumb

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/791084

TheDJ triaged this task as Medium priority.

Change 791084 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/TimedMediaHandler@master] Remove unused oggThumb

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/791084

Change 791603 had a related patch set uploaded (by TheDJ; author: TheDJ):

[mediawiki/extensions/CirrusSearch@master] Remove unused oggthumblocation variable

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/791603

Change 791605 had a related patch set uploaded (by TheDJ; author: TheDJ):

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Remove unused OggThumbLocation config variable

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/791605

TheDJ added a project: User-TheDJ.

Lets keep this open until the other patches are merged

Change 791603 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/CirrusSearch@master] Remove unused oggthumblocation variable

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/791603

Change 791605 merged by jenkins-bot:

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Remove unused OggThumbLocation config variable

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/791605

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2022-05-23T06:35:22Z] <ladsgroup@deploy1002> Synchronized wmf-config/CommonSettings.php: Config: [[gerrit:791605|Remove unused OggThumbLocation config variable (T308191)]] (duration: 00m 51s)