I uploaded a 320x200 pixel .webm file and it was transcoded to a 640x400 (or so) .webm file for previewing purposes, blowing up the file size by the factor of 3. This clearly does not make sense.

We should: 1) not transcode if we already have a smallish .webm file. 2) Provide an site option to disable transcoding and always just present the uploaded original file 3) Probably also disable transcoding for other common .ogg videos? (not sure on this one).

Spinoff of remaining task of #507

If we do this, then maybe we should just get rid of Beaker:. Possibly,

Replace Routes with werkzeug's routing Replace Beaker's caching with ​http://werkzeug.pocoo.org/docs/contrib/cache/ Replace sessions with itsdangerous ​http://flask.pocoo.org/snippets/51/

If:

• mediagoblin.ini cannot contain every option people might want to modify,
• mediagoblin/config_spec.ini is kept up-to-date,

then maybe mediagoblin.ini should mention config_spec.ini.

It is mentioned in ​http://docs.mediagoblin.org/siteadmin/configuration.html