storing video/audio in a database

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

On 7/8/06 2:03 AM, "Sean Wilson" <snw at paradise.net.nz> wrote:

Hi Jared,
Hi Sean,

>> 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.

Jared, you work with Director? Or else ?

During many years all director developers and we have agree that it is not
very good idea put audio and movie files into db.

Issues of encryption -- QuiteTime allow solve this.

So usually developers put collection of such files with names
    "fileNNNN" into some folder, and store into db only
    names of these files..


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Best regards,

Ruslan Zasukhin
VP Engineering and New Technology
Paradigma Software, Inc

Valentina - Joining Worlds of Information
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