Video database driven flash
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- joelski
I have this client hat wants to upload AVI files to a server and have them stored in a database. And call them up and be able to pause and draw on the movies like a baskeball game to show the faults etc...now I was thinkin flash would be the way to go....but how would I get flash to convert avi files on the fly via a databse...is there any technology out there...like flash server mx etc to do this...how would I do this?
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- blend30
I have done something like this in the past. DB part is no biggie. You can concatenate mpeg movies by raw copying on the server end or using some content referencing language like SMIL to do the same on the client.
I would consider standard Mpeg-4 for the overlays as there are now some tools available. Check out http://www.mpeg4.org. Don't know too much about flash MX' video features so somebody else can fill in...
- 6_foot_tall0
http://www.sorenson.com/content.…
Check this out... doesn't really do conversion on the fly tho - done before the file is viewed online...
Also your not limited just to SMIL - if you wanted you could use XML to pass file locations, references, attributes into flash from a single file... then just update the XML whenever - no need for a DB.
Or you could go a stage further and use a DB inconjuction with ASP (or .NET) or PHP and SQL to query the DB - recompile the XML (serverside) and pass the XML to the flash interface...
Lot of ways to do this... up to you - with considerations aimed at how many concurrent users there are? how much bandwidth is available? server storage space for N number of file? Quality of Service? Regular updating...
A big project no doubt... good luck :)