Can I use a timeseries DBMS to store video?
From a research study involving participants with a camera, I have chunks of video recording. I have to split them as part of the preprocessing into short sequences of around 5 min long. Each file will be named after its time-stamp in the sequence. I can store them as binary blobs in a database.


It doesn't make much sense to split apart a video, unless for security. It's a container with an audio and video stream. Normally they're stored in a container like AVI, MP4 or MKV (the open standard). In MKV-parlance, you have "Chapters". This is effectively a timeseries database.

Also, you may want to be careful if you're extracting and cutting them. Keep in mind most video streams are compressed, and de-compressing and re-compressing can introduce artifacts and such.

Here are the fields store in the Chapter's data

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