how to store videos in database

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How can i store videos in database and then how can i play it by clicking on it. just like in YouTube

Posted 28-Sep-11 6:38am

Asad_Iqbal

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Simon Bang Terkildsen · Accepted Answer · 2011-09-28T06:43:00

Solution 1

Don't

Do not store files in a database, I see this type of question alot and I've never seen a good reason to do so.

Store the location of the video-file in the database.

You might want to look at this article
Upload and Convert Video file to Flash Video (flv) and Progressive Streaming using ASP.NET handler[^]

Posted 28-Sep-11 6:43am

Simon Bang Terkildsen

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Ed Nutting 28-Sep-11 12:49pm

Good answer, just what I said. You must've posted before me but I hadn't refreshed :P Nice link too, Ed :)

Simon Bang Terkildsen 28-Sep-11 12:51pm

Thank you, Edward.

Asad_Iqbal 29-Sep-11 3:12am

Thanks for the help bro didn't know that at all.

Ed Nutting · Accepted Answer · 2011-09-28T06:46:00

What you're asking is an immense task and one that is impossible how you want to go about doing it. Far better would be to have a file server for your videos, name each file (when you save it to your file server by say FileUpload in a web page) with a Guid then store that Guid in a record with the details fo the file in your database. For example your table would include:

VideoId - Both the primary key of the table and the Guid of the file name for the actual video file.
Name - The name of the video, specified by a user presumably
Description - As above but a description
Duration - Store the duration of the file when you save it for later use, can be useful for sorting videos for example
Tags - You may wish to tag users?

What you wish to do is an immense task and I really would suggest you start with something easier if you weren't able to work this one out for yourself.

Best of luck, taking on YouTube sounds crazy to me given that it's owned by Google,

Hope this helps, Ed :)