My position on huge AV files has been that they are too large for the average user to fiddle with if he has to download the whole thing before seeing/hearing anything. We ought to have the bitstreams in DSpace for archival purposes, but we also ought to mount them on a streaming service and point to them, so that casual users can just open them with a streaming client. It's fairly easy to build a trivial SMIL document pointing to a stream and tuck that into an item.
This doesn't address the ingestion performance issue, of course. Does the "registration" mechanism not suffice for this? -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Typically when a software vendor says that a product is "intuitive" he means the exact opposite.
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