[Dspace-general] Video files

[John Murtagh]

Hello all,

I've got 15 hours worth of video footage from our Specialist 

Research Institutes Open Week - however, despite formatting it into MPEG and cutting the footage into 15 minute snippets the files are just too large to be placed onto DSpace.(We are talking 80MB! And no, we don't have a provision for bit streaming!)

Has anyone got any solutions to this problem?
Currently, DSpace only "supports" video/mpeg video files but is there a "best" way of compressing files or using a "known" or "unknown" file format on the files we try to upload? Obviously, we want the size reduced without deteriorating the quality of the images.

Is it best to wait for further upgrades of DSpace in the near future?

Appreciative of any thoughts/comments/ideas on this one.


Thanks in advance

PS

We're also going to be trying out the Video in DSpace "hack" as presented here: http://66.249.93.104/search?q=cache:adBQyTqRpE4J:dsug2006.uib.no/archive/krejcir.pdf+dirty+trick+dspace&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&client=operaabout 

wondered if anyone had successfully tested this work-around?

Thanks

John Murtagh
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John Murtagh
Project Manager - Brunel University Research Archive
Brunel Library
Kingston Road
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UB8 3PH
Tel. 0189 526 5417
E-mail: john.murtagh at brunel.ac.uk
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