databasing flash movies

[kevinkallsen]

Okay, I want to take my flash knowledge up a few notches. I currently have a
web application written in coldfusion. The end user wants to be able to take
video and upload it to the server in flash (flv).

This is not a problem to do manually. I have no problem opening flash 8 and
importing a video ? creating a skin ? uploading to the server ? copying the
<object> to my .cfm pages. Works great.

My question is: how do I store this info in a mysql database so that the flash
will retrieve the latest video that has been updated. Or the end user can
choice from any of the videos in the docs/flash folder to view.

Do I create a database that holds the <object>? Do I create on flash swf that
can query the database? I really have no idea about the best practice for
video database storage??

Help

Kevin

[Motion Maker]

You store just the filenames of the movies, jpegs, flvs in the database. You
store the content on the server in their native file formats. Then query the
database and show a list of the found filename in Flash say in a list or
combobox component. The let the user select from your UI and then load the
asset using loadMovie, MovieClipLoader or the FLVPlayback component.

If there is not much more information other than the name of the file, you
might want to look at the particular scripting language and simply let it
return a list of file names.

But if you have more complex needs such as different folders for each user,
descriptions of the files and so on, then the database is a good way to go.

--
Lon Hosford
[url]www.lonhosford.com[/url]
May many happy bits flow your way!
"kevinkallsen" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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Okay, I want to take my flash knowledge up a few notches. I currently have
a
web application written in coldfusion. The end user wants to be able to
take
video and upload it to the server in flash (flv).

This is not a problem to do manually. I have no problem opening flash 8
and
importing a video ? creating a skin ? uploading to the server ? copying the
<object> to my .cfm pages. Works great.

My question is: how do I store this info in a mysql database so that the
flash
will retrieve the latest video that has been updated. Or the end user can
choice from any of the videos in the docs/flash folder to view.

Do I create a database that holds the <object>? Do I create on flash swf
that
can query the database? I really have no idea about the best practice for
video database storage??

Help

Kevin

[kevinkallsen]

This probably is not the standard topic here. But I am looking for some help
in what is the best technique for databasing my flash moives and then having a
single skin play the movies from the database. Any suggestions?