AW: OT: How to serve a 8GB download?

[Tiemo Hollmann TB]

Hi Bob,
thank goodness, I am not selling to Botswana :)
yes, 99% of the app are the video files. I even don't need any pw protection or license key. I just want to give users, who don't have any more a DVD drive (iMac, Netbooks), a chance to download the image of the DVD. So, I will make a 8GB zip file or directly an image file and put it on my server.
Thanks for your experience.
Tiemo

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com] Im Auftrag
> von Bob Sneidar
> Gesendet: Freitag, 31. Oktober 2014 16:53
> An: How to use LiveCode
> Betreff: Re: OT: How to serve a 8GB download?
> 
> Probably too late to talk about how to package your data, which is likely the
> reason it is so big. I suspect it contains a lot of images or other kinds of
> media.
> 
> You might consider however, packaging your media separately from the
> application itself, then have the app on launch begin to sync the media from a
> web server. If that is impractical, then I would say a password protected zip
> file, where the password is the license key (if you have implemented one).
> 
> It used to be in ages gone by that zip files were broken up into smaller
> pieces because modem transport of large files was inherently unreliable. These
> days it’s rare that a download will fail due to the transport. I wouldn’t do
> multipart zips if you can help it, unless your target market is Botswana where
> they are still using 14.4 modems. ;-)
> 
> Bob S
> 
> 
> > On Oct 31, 2014, at 08:39 , Tiemo Hollmann TB <toolbook at kestner.de> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have a LC application, which has a total size of about 8GB
> > (including a bunch of videos). Usually it is distributed via DVD-DL.
> >
> > If I would like to serve it as a download on my webserver, how should
> > I package it? Should I just create a single 8GB zip file, or should I
> > split it in several zip files - is there a tool, which would automate
> > it that all related zip files are download one after the other and
> > combined after download? Or what would  be an appropriate approach for
> > such a big file? No user credentials, no payment is necessary, just a link
> to the download.
> >
> > Has anybody experiences with this matter?
> >
> > Tiemo
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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