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John
John

Reputation: 1

how to store video files in byte form

I would like to store the bytes of a video file in a datastore somewhere. I have tried storing them in sqlite but the file is too big. what other alternative is there. I want also o be able to search fro that byte array given the name of the video file.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 427

Answers (1)

Alex Gitelman
Alex Gitelman

Reputation: 24722

I highly recommend that you store it as a file and use database to only store metadata and reference to that file (filename and path for example). That will allow you to search for any metadata using DB without dumping tons of binary content into database.

Upvotes: 1

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