Serving local windows media files via PHP

Hi everyone,

I am working on a project where I have .wmv files stored outside of
the server's www root, and want to serve them via a custom web
interface. It's all on windows, and is only intended to work locally
on the physical machine it runs on (don't ask, the customer is
king...).

Right now I have a working prototype in which I use a PHP script
(called movie.php) to serve the target file. In the HTML page, I have
an OBJECT tag that refers to the script, like so:

<OBJECT ID="MediaPlayer" WIDTH="512" HEIGHT="384"
CLASSID="CLSID:22D6F312-B0F6-11D0-94AB-0080C74C7E95"
STANDBY="Loading Windows Media Player components..."
TYPE="application/x-oleobject">
<PARAM NAME="FileName" VALUE="movie.php?fileID=12345">
<PARAM name="ShowControls" VALUE="true">
<param name="ShowStatusBar" value="true">
<PARAM name="ShowDisplay" VALUE="true">
<PARAM name="autostart" VALUE="true">
<EMBED TYPE="application/x-mplayer2"
SRC="movie.php?fileID=12345"
NAME="MediaPlayer"
WIDTH="512"
HEIGHT="384"
ShowControls="1"
ShowStatusBar="1"
ShowDisplay="1"
autostart="1"
pluginspage="http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/download/
default.asp">
</EMBED>
</OBJECT>

The movie.php script itself is pretty simple too (stripped down to the
essentials):

<?php

$timeout = 60 * 60 * 24 * 2;
header( 'Cache-Control', 'private, max-age=' . $timeout . '' );
header( 'Pragma', 'private, max-age=' . $timeout . '' );
header( 'Expires', gmdate( 'D, d M Y H:i:s', time() + $timeout ) . '
GMT' );
header( 'Content-Type:video/x-ms-wmv' );
readfile( $file );

?>

This gives me a working player, but the big downside is the player
won't let me skip the clips :(

The seek bar does not respond to any requests to skip ahead, and
pausing the video resets it to the start. Any idea on how I can fix
this so I can skip ahead as much as I wish?

Thanks a lot!
.

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