Hello Mark D., For my project we need to use a streaming solution due to rights restrictions (i.e., patrons are allowed to view, but not download, content).
regards, Joe On 2/21/07 10:33 PM, "Mark Diggory" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Darwin seems a great OS solution for Real Time Streaming. But, I'd > just like to point out that theres a big difference between realtime > streaming and the video starting before its finished downloading > (something that quicktime supports without a real time streaming > server). > > For instance see: > https://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/114589 > > as an example of Quicktime movies in DSpace, if your using QTP, they > start immediately without any special services on the server side. > Again, note, this is "not streaming". Isn't this what your really after? > > -Mark > > On Feb 21, 2007, at 8:55 PM, j.g. pawletko wrote: > >> Hello Mark, >> >> We use DSpace as a core element in our preservation repository design, >> but we have eliminated the DSpace UI when disseminating content. >> >> When a user clicks on a handle, the handle resolves to a project- >> specific >> script that then runs a special SRU query against DSpace. SRU >> returns a >> real-time mapping of the "submitted filename" to "assetstore >> location". >> >> Using this mapping our disseminator scripts can build RTSP URLs that >> communicate the MPEG-4 file location(s) to our Darwin Streaming Server >> instance, thereby allowing us to stream the content to the user. >> >> It sounds like you are using the DSpace UI so I don't know if our >> approach >> is helpful, but I thought I would communicate it just in case... >> >> regards, >> Joe >> >> >> -- >> J.G. Pawletko (joe) >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> Programmer/Analyst >> Digital Library Team >> Bobst Library, New York University >> (212) 992-9999 >> -- >> >> >> >> On 2/21/07 1:22 PM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Message: 3 >>> Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 13:16:31 -0500 >>> From: "Mark H. Wood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> Subject: [Dspace-tech] Audio and video bitstreams >>> To: dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net >>> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >>> >>> 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? >>> >>> -- >>> Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> Typically when a software vendor says that a product is >>> "intuitive" he >>> means the exact opposite. >> >> >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> --- >> 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 >> DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Mark R. Diggory - DSpace Systems Manager > MIT Libraries, Systems and Technology Services > Massachusetts Institute of Technology > Office: E25-131 > Phone: (617) 253-1096 > > -- J.G. Pawletko (joe) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Programmer/Analyst Digital Library Team Bobst Library, New York University (212) 992-9999 -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
