QMediaContent and binary encoded videos

[understatementOfTheYear]

Hi,

I'm grabbing a binary encoded video from a database that I want to play through pyqt5's media player. All of this is in Python:
The process is:
encode mp4 to binary using pickle
store on database
decode with pickle and store as a variable
pass that variable to setMedia(QUrl.fromlocalfile(unpickled_video))
But that's about as far as it gets.

I've also tried QUrl.fromEncoded() with no luck. I'm really not certain how to pass a video to setMedia that doesn't have an explicit path.
Is there any known way of passing a binary video file saved in memory to QMediaContent?

Thanks!
-Mark

[SGaist]

Hi,

Not that I remember, however you can create a temporary file where you dump the video and then play it.

Hope it helps

[understatementOfTheYear]

That's my last resort. Ideally I'd like to keep any temp files off the hard drive so it doesn't slow everything down.

[SGaist]

Then depending on your OS you could make use of a ramdisk.