Re: Serving local windows media files via PHP
- From: petersprc <petersprc@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:53:09 -0700 (PDT)
Hi,
Seeking usually involves a partial GET request (http://www.w3.org/
Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html#sec14.35).
You could handle the range request in your script and send the byte
range specified in $_SERVER['HTTP_RANGE'] along with appropriate
headers. Example here: http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.fread.php#84115
Alternatively, you can let Apache send the requested part directly by
using mod_rewrite and a map containing authorized sessions. Good
example here: http://bytes.com/forum/thread10523.html
The first is more flexible in terms of authorization and logging etc.
The second method would have slightly better performance, but I
wouldn't worry about it unless you're handling very high loads.
Regards,
John Peters
On Jul 30, 12:52 pm, AeonOfTime <s.mordz...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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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