Hi Bob, thank goodness, I am not selling to Botswana :) yes, 99% of the app are the video files. I even don't need any pw protection or license key. I just want to give users, who don't have any more a DVD drive (iMac, Netbooks), a chance to download the image of the DVD. So, I will make a 8GB zip file or directly an image file and put it on my server. Thanks for your experience. Tiemo
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] Im Auftrag > von Bob Sneidar > Gesendet: Freitag, 31. Oktober 2014 16:53 > An: How to use LiveCode > Betreff: Re: OT: How to serve a 8GB download? > > Probably too late to talk about how to package your data, which is likely the > reason it is so big. I suspect it contains a lot of images or other kinds of > media. > > You might consider however, packaging your media separately from the > application itself, then have the app on launch begin to sync the media from a > web server. If that is impractical, then I would say a password protected zip > file, where the password is the license key (if you have implemented one). > > It used to be in ages gone by that zip files were broken up into smaller > pieces because modem transport of large files was inherently unreliable. These > days it’s rare that a download will fail due to the transport. I wouldn’t do > multipart zips if you can help it, unless your target market is Botswana where > they are still using 14.4 modems. ;-) > > Bob S > > > > On Oct 31, 2014, at 08:39 , Tiemo Hollmann TB <toolb...@kestner.de> wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > I have a LC application, which has a total size of about 8GB > > (including a bunch of videos). Usually it is distributed via DVD-DL. > > > > If I would like to serve it as a download on my webserver, how should > > I package it? Should I just create a single 8GB zip file, or should I > > split it in several zip files - is there a tool, which would automate > > it that all related zip files are download one after the other and > > combined after download? Or what would be an appropriate approach for > > such a big file? No user credentials, no payment is necessary, just a link > to the download. > > > > Has anybody experiences with this matter? > > > > Tiemo > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > use-livecode mailing list > > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
