Animation performance with large images -- too large?

I'm working with a client who created an animation using Edge Animate, and we're having some performance problems. The HTML page itself is 3840x1080, and the animation that is causing the most grief is a series of 304 PNGs, each 2592x1080 in size, showing at 10 fps.
IE 10 is the required browser. When this animation runs, many of the frames are dropped, showing the X placeholder image instead. Additionally, there are pauses and stutters and such, presumably as the browser is trying to keep up. I note that when I go in and modify the animation() constructor to use maxFrames: 50 or so, the performance problems go away entirely. It seems like the preloading of all the frames is hitting a memory ceiling.
Question: Is it even feasible to ask the browser to do this kind of work? I'm not a JavaScript/HTML guy, and if I had my druthers, this would be done using something like C++/DirectX.
Any opinions here on optimizing, or approaching this problem differently?
Many thanks,
Dave

Welcome to the family. You're coming into the fold at a bad time, sad to say.
I'd be very interested to know more about your workflow, jc, scanner hardware, acquisition software, etc.
Right now, I'd have to say Aperture is not a tool you even want to consider but I gotta give you my opinion: your catalog shouldn't point to the originals anyway. Do your conversions to a suitable format that will get you the versatility you need without overkill and then offload those huge originals (make at least two copies of your library) for permanent storage with one offsite.
Folks around here speak highly of iView but I've never used it. Portfolio is a longtime favorite and I believe you can distribute copies of your catalog with a free Portfolio viewer (could be wrong about that). You certainly cannot do that with Aperture. Your catalog will use little JPEGs for thumbnails but you can make prints and slideshows from your more reasonably-sized assets like, say, 8 bit TIFFs at 6-14 megs.
Hey, good luck and I hope you get better advice on a wider selection of products.
bogiesan

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