Re: [Dspace-tech] Video files in DSpace

2008-11-25 Thread Jason Stirnaman
Ruby, I'm guessing what your IT person meant to say was streaming over HTTP, also known as progressive download. This is generally not as good as streaming from a dedicated media server like Helix or Flash server, but it may suit your purpose. And you should be able to use progressive

Re: [Dspace-tech] Video files in DSpace

2008-11-25 Thread Bram Luyten
Hi Ruby, you are pinpointing two important issues regarding offering online access to video files: 1) The video files, in wmv format are too large. As a result, downloading takes a long time for users and the process weighs on the available bandwidth (both at the user and server side) 2) An

[Dspace-tech] Video files in DSpace

2008-11-24 Thread Ruby . Lindberg
Hi! We would like to upload video files that are produced for the department and ideally we would like to archive into the Institution's established DSpace instance. The department's IT people are concerned that the size of the video files could cause a major problem with the government's