Advise requested: audio and video files

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One of the journals that we have migrated to the OJS platform includes music videos and sound tracks. These files vary in size with the video (even compressed) exceeding 40MB. I have some questions:

  1. How does one add these mp3 and m4v files onto OJS as they accompany articles, and therefore are really not entities on their own;
  2. Is it better to use an insitutional youtube channel to host these and have OJS point to these? Is so, is it possible to provide hyperlinks within a the table of contents within a specific section e.g. tracklist with titles hyprlinked to youtube?

Thanks in advance,
Wynand

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Hi @Wynand_van_der_Walt,

What version of OJS are you using? (Please include this information in your posts.)

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

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Hi Alec,
Apologies. We are using version OJS 2.4.8.0.

Regards,

Wynand

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Hi @Wynand_van_der_Walt,

On large files: It’s a little clumsy to work with large files in OJS 2.x; the OJS 3.x upload tool has a progress indicator, which makes it a little less painful. That said, OJS 2.x doesn’t have a built-in limit on file size; there are a few web server settings that might establish an upper limit (see the FAQ) but OJS will operate just fine within that.

As for embedding multimedia, there’s a wiki page documenting how to do this in OJS 2.x: https://pkp.sfu.ca/wiki/index.php/Embedding_Multimedia_within_OJS_and_OCS

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

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Hi Alec,

Thank you so much. I think the demo journal setup is exactly what I was looking for. I tried loading a file of 40mb but fails for some reason. i will look at the FAQs regarding this.

regards,

Wynand