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I guess: how many titles could handle Ant MovieCatalog? And how much could be big the database, in MegaBytes?

This is because I would to know if it's possible maintain a huge database, like all the movies made in USA, or all DVD in the world, or...


Thanks,

Andrea

The only real limit is to 32767 movies, but could be easily extended to 2147483647 if needed.
For the database size, since the whole file is stored in memory when loading, I recommend to not have a file bigger than 50 or 100 MB.
Using external pictures (linked instead of stored, possible with the .amc files and mandatory with the .xml files) there is no problem since the catalog will stay quite small.
In version 4 I will make the program smarter to not load the whole file, but only movie information, so pictures will be loaded only when needed. This should remove this problem with large files.