FrontBase Inc. Announces Support For QuickTime Streaming Server on FrontBase Relational Database Server 3.5.Business Editors & High-Tech Writers Macworld New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of 2002 New Features for QuickTime Include Capability to Create Custom Asset Management Solutions Today at Macworld New York, FrontBase Inc. proudly announced support for QuickTime streaming directly from their best-in-class database software, FrontBase Relational Database relational database Database in which all data are represented in tabular form. The description of a particular entity is provided by the set of its attribute values, stored as one row or record of the table, called a tuple. Server 3.5. FrontBase has extended Apple's open source QuickTime Streaming Server QuickTime Streaming Server (QTSS) is a server or service daemon built into Apple Computer's Mac OS X Server that delivers video and audio on request to users over a computer network or the Internet. Its primary GUI configuration tool is QTSS Publisher. to allow the server to retrieve movie data directly from the database, and vend it faster than via the filesystem. As a further benefit for developers wishing to integrate rich multimedia applications with the powerful features of a database server, FrontBase has also created an extension to Mac OS X advanced Cocoa framework, supporting seamless integration An addition of a new application, routine or device that works smoothly with the existing system. It implies that the new feature or program can be installed and used without problems. Contrast with "transparent," which implies that there is no discernible change after installation. of QuickTime. "Because Apple has open-sourced the QuickTime Streaming Server, we have been able to easily extend its functionality to leverage the abilities of our database for the benefit of our mutual customers," explained Geert Clemmensen, FrontBase CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . "And since the modifications are solely at the server end, they are transparent to end-users, who can continue to use their favorite QuickTime viewer." "Modeled on the same Open Source program as Mac OS X, the QuickTime Streaming Server was designed to make it easy for third parties to add value to and extend the functionality of the server," said Frank Casanova, Apple's director of QuickTime Product Marketing. "This opens up a world of opportunities for developers who want to create innovative media solutions, and FrontBase's support for QuickTime Streaming Server is a great example of how to use the technologies of Mac OS X and QuickTime to enhance the user experience." By storing multimedia content in FrontBase, developers can now take advantage of a fast search of meta-data, together with the robustness, scalability, and centralized cen·tral·ize v. cen·tral·ized, cen·tral·iz·ing, cen·tral·iz·es v.tr. 1. To draw into or toward a center; consolidate. 2. asset management offered by an enterprise-class database, and actually stream QuickTime movies more efficiently. Furthermore, using Frontbase's Objective-C API (Application Programming Interface) A language and message format used by an application program to communicate with the operating system or some other control program such as a database management system (DBMS) or communications protocol. , developers can query the database for QuickTime movies, and use this extension to load the requested movie content into an NSMovie object, displayed by an NSMovieView. The actual movie data is then streamed on demand to the client application by a custom QuickTime data provider. This will allow developers to rapidly create custom solutions for asset management systems. Since FrontBase Relational Database Server allows for piece-wise access to BLOBs, movies can be accessed just as if they were part of the local filesystem. As FrontBase provides a much more flexible and tuneable caching mechanism, it can also vend the data more efficiently. At Macworld, FrontBase is demonstrating FrontBase Relational Database Server 3.5 with QuickTime Streaming Server at the FrontBase booth, #1718. Frontbase Relational Database Server 3.5 with support for QuickTime Streaming Server is immediately available online at www.frontbase.com. About FrontBase FrontBase is a privately held, multinational company with facilities in Copenhagen, London, Boston, Seattle and corporate headquarters in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. . FrontBase is fast becoming known as a technological leader in the database industry by providing unique and demonstrable de·mon·stra·ble adj. 1. Capable of being demonstrated or proved: demonstrable truths. 2. Obvious or apparent: demonstrable lies. innovations, and through a commitment to exceptional service. |
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