Oracle's interMedia

The capabilities of interMedia audio, image, and video include the storage, retrieval, management, and manipulation of multimedia data managed by Oracle8i. Data for this section is taken from Oracles intermedia Webpage
Oracle interMedia supports multimedia storage, retrieval, and management of:
BLOBs stored locally in Oracle8i and containing audio, image, or video data
BFILEs, stored locally in operating system-specific file systems and containing audio, image, or video data
URLs containing audio, image, or video data stored on any HTTP server such as Oracle Application Server, Netscape Application Server.

Oracle also stores metadata including:
source type, location, and source name
MIME type and formatting information
characteristics such as height and width of an image, number of audio channels, video frame rate, pay time, etc.

interMedia provides the ORDAudio, ORDImage, and ORDVideo object types and methods for:

• manipulating multimedia data source attribute information
• extracting attributes from multimedia data
• getting and managing multimedia data from Oracle interMedia, Web servers, and other servers.
• performing a minimal set of manipulation operations on multimedia data (images only). It provides functions to describe color Histogram, Texture,Average Color (As per SQL/MM standards)
• performing description attribute manipulation, file operations (open, close, trim, read, and write) on the source, comments attribute manipulation, and processing commands (processAudioCommand and processVideoCommand) to operate on the multimedia data (interMedia audio and video only).

The properties available are:
ORDImage : the height, width, data size of the on-disk image, file type, image type, compression type, and MIME type
ORDAudio : the format, encoding, number of channels, sampling rate, sample size, compression type, and audio duration.
ORDVideo : the format, frame size, frame resolution, frame rate, video duration, number of frames, compression type, number of colors, and bit rate.