It's not really my area of expertise, but aren't there files that are essentially links to media streams that would serve your purpose, if you just upload the "link file" as your bitstream, and give it an appropriate media type?
The W3C-recommended SMIL format appears to support this (.smil or .smi extension, media type application/smil+xml or application/smil). Some of the proprietary streaming protocols also specify their own link-file formats (such as .ram for RealAudio). I would think that if you use an appropriately constructued one of these as your bitstream, and make sure the media type gets reported correctly, it should look to your users just like any other kind of DSpace content, but start a stream going when it is downloaded. John Mark H. Wood wrote: > We continue to get requests for support of audio and video. For > longer audio documents, and video of almost any length, the average > user isn't going to want to sit watching the thing download and his > storage fill up; he's going to expect streaming access that starts > almost immediately. This suggests that DSpace needs a way to specify > a "nonlocal" bitstream which is just a URL for such a service. > > Yeah, we can dream up a metadata field and have it formatted as a > link. We're going to do that to start out with. But that's going to > be confusing to the end user, who will expect links to the content he > found to be all in the same place, and *especially* that the form he > most likely prefers will not be off in some unusual location on the > page. It would be much nicer if we could e.g. submit an item with two > bitstreams: a nonlocal one pointing to a streaming service for casual > use, and a local one through which the user can download and keep a > copy of the actual document. > > Comments? > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > DSpace-tech mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
