binary read/write movie

[Rodney Tamblyn]

I've posted a small example binary read/write stack to my weblog:

http://radio.weblogs.com/0118367/categories/metacard/

Reading and writing a 5 Mb quicktime movie in 500k chunks takes about 1 
second!

Rodney

On Monday, February 10, 2003, at 01:32  AM, Rodney Tamblyn wrote:

> I need to use binary read to transfer some files (mainly smallish 
> quicktime movies) to a database.  I'm aware of all the pluses and 
> minuses of putting large binary files in blobs within databases, and 
> for the application I have in mind this is the best approach.  I'm 
> using Valentina DB.
>
> My question is what is the best way to read this sort of file?  Assume 
> a movie file of 3Mb which I need to add to the database.   Using 
> binary read you can specify unit types 
> (int1,uint1,int2,uint2,int4,uint4), but I'm not sure if I should use 
> one of these (uint4?).  I imagine I'll want to repetitively read a 
> portion of the file then write to DB to avoid any potential memory 
> issues.
>
> If anyone has an example script they can share that would be great, 
> otherwise I'll experiment tomorrow and find solution on my own...
>
> Rodney
>
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