Protecting video files

[sims]

At 11:09 PM -0500 9/24/05, J. Landman Gay wrote:
>I'm working on something similar right now. What I did was place 
>each video file into a stack as a custom property. When it is time 
>to play the video, I write the custom property out to a temporary 
>file with a non-descript name in the "temporary items" folder, then 
>I set the filename of a player object to the temporary file. When 
>the movie is done, I delete the temporary file. Every time I change 
>videos, I use the same temporary file name. That way if something 
>happens and one of them is left on disk, the next video just 
>overwrites it.

Thank you Jacque, I just wrote something very similar to that and was 
surprised at how
fast it was. Most reassuring that you are doing the same sort of thing. Thanks!

ciao,
sims