What are the best practices for retrieving and displaying videos stored as LONGBLOB in PHP?

Storing videos as LONGBLOB in a database can lead to performance issues and is not recommended. It is better to store the videos in a file system and save the file path in the database. To retrieve and display the videos in PHP, you can use the file path stored in the database to generate the appropriate HTML code for embedding the video in your webpage. 

<?php
// Retrieve the file path from the database
$file_path = "path/to/video.mp4";

// Generate HTML code to display the video
echo '<video width="320" height="240" controls>';
echo '<source src="' . $file_path . '" type="video/mp4">';
echo 'Your browser does not support the video tag.';
echo '</video>';
?>

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LONGBLOB video retrieval PHP display best practices

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