how to store a movie in MySQL

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January 5th, 2004, 04:50 PM

Lana

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how to store a movie in MySQL

Hi! I need to store a video movie in MySQL and be able to browse it starting from selected time. I have no idea from what to start, but I need it for a JAVA project. Will be grateful for any hint on how to do this. Thanks. Lana

January 5th, 2004, 10:22 PM

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If you want to store binary data (such as a movie file) in a mysql database, you should read up on BLOBs (binary Large Objects). I haven't used these myself, but the PHP / MySQL manual should have some information on how to deal with them. I wouldn't be surprised if there was a size limit though - adding large movies to a DB could reach the MySQL table limit (2 or 4Gb I think) pretty quickly.

January 6th, 2004, 08:20 PM

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why would you store such a big file in a db
that will bring performance down to its knees, bending it BACKWARDS.
just store the path of the movie in a field as string and there u go.

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