[Archon-L] Archon Implementer

[Chris Prom]

Arnold,

We'll look into these issues and get back to you.  We have not 
worked extensively with audio/video in Archon, so if anyone else 
has done so, I hope they might post their expereinces to the 
list.

Thanks,

Chris

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Christopher J. Prom
Assistant University Archivist
University of Illinois Archives
19 Library
1408 W. Gregory Dr.
Urbana, IL 61801

phone:	217.333.0798
fax:	217.333.2868
e-mail:	prom at uiuc.edu
web:	http://web.library.uiuc.edu/ahx

On Mon, 23 Apr 2007, Arnold, Richard A wrote:

> We've recently installed Archon on a virtual machine and have begun
> populating it.  It's really not ready for prime time yet because we're
> having some problems with audio and video files. I've uploaded a few
> test files (.mp3 and .mpeg), but when we go to view them, our media
> player (Windows Media Player 10) loads up in the browser and says that
> it is connecting to the media but nothing happens. We've tried this with
> several different media players and several browsers and we still
> haven't had any luck getting the media to play. Has anyone else
> experienced this and how many are using the digital library component.
> Everything else works great and was very easy to setup except for this.
> Oh, one other thing. Whenever we upload an image into the collection and
> go to the page to view it, a thumbnail of the picture appears but, later
> on, will disappear. The link to download the picture is still there but
> the thumbnail isn't.
>
>
>
> Rick Arnold
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> HRM IT Manager
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> Conrad N. Hilton College of
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> Hotel and Restaurant Management
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> University of Houston
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