Can anyone out there help me with this ? I have a database of a video
collection, which has the movie poster stored as one of the fields in an OLE
object.

I'm trying to display this poster on a web page linked through ODBC to the
access 2000 database. I'm using Access 2000, Windows 2000 Professional IIS
version 5, and Frontpage 2000 for web development.

Many Thanks in Advance !

This rather depends on exactly how the images were stored. The OLE Object field-type can store raw binary
image data, or it can be used with OLE Embedding, which stores the data in a proprietary undocumented format
that includes varying headers and often stores the image uncompressed (hence the overhead of anything from
5 to 100 *times* the original file size for jpeg images).

If you are storing the raw binary image data (recommended) then it's easy to stream the data directly to
a web browser (several samples on our site illustrate this - see the url in the sig below - you can download
them or view the code online).

If you are using OLE Embedding then the approach may depend on the specific OLE Server application that
was used to store the image. It will likely involve more coding, some assumptions, a very specific system
configuration and additional processing overhead to serve the images.
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