One strategy you may want to adopt, is to include a reference to a steaming sever in your items metadata. Then have your theme display that link as the file to download. This way you can separate all re technology you need to run a proper streaming sever from your repositry which doesnt have any support.
Scott-- On Apr 2, 2008, at 14:30, "Mark H. Wood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Unless these videos are extremely short, that would involve adding a > second content delivery model to DSpace. Users aren't going to be > satisfied to sit and wait while their browsers download 5GB of video > content before starting to play it. > > I've experimented with storing a simple SMIL document as the item's > primary bitstream, and having that point to a streaming server which > supplies the actual video. The problem I ran into is that SMIL > support in popular browsers was poor to nonexistent at that time. I > haven't retested for a while, so the situation may have improved. > > -- > Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Typically when a software vendor says that a product is "intuitive" he > means the exact opposite. > > --- > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. > It's the best place to buy or sell services for > just about anything Open Source. > http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace > _______________________________________________ > DSpace-tech mailing list > DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
