storing video/audio in a database

[Sean Wilson]

>I am curious as to whether Valentina stores video/audio files.

Check out BLOB fields in the docs/WIKI.

>I'm interested in not only storing them locally in an embedded
>database, but also serving them over the internet. Perhaps something
>like Quicktime Streaming Server would suit my needs better for the
>latter purpose? I don't have a clue.

For using video locally, you'd need to read the file from the DB and 
create a copy on the local system for use (at least, for use with 
Director you would). For streaming video over the web you're probably 
right, some sort of streaming server might be more appropriate - 
depending on what you're trying to achieve.

Cheers,
-Sean.