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  • SPG
    #1

    Streaming Video - Secure

    Hi,

    Two questions for you all..

    Firstly, is there a way of streaming video using PHP? At the moment I just
    have a link to a video file and the whole thing downloads before playing
    which is a bit of a chore as the video file is pretty huge.

    Secondly, I want to restrict access to the video using a password. Can
    anyone think of a nice way of doing this? I thought about having the video
    embedded into a page and when the page loads it checks if a user is logged
    in and if not goes back to the login page, but that doesn't restict access
    to the actual video, IE: They can view source, find the Video link and
    simply copy it into a browser window...

    I look forward to your answers/advice

    Steve


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    • bsa
      #2
      Re: Streaming Video - Secure

      Steve,
      PHP or not you should try VideoVista http://www.vista.it.

      It plays virtually on any webserver regardless script language or
      dedicated server.
      Anyway using PHP you can achieve good user interaction with it.


      Hope this could help you.

      regards

      Fabio




      On Feb 22, 2:38 pm, "SPG" <steve.goods... @nospoo.blueyon der.co.uk>
      wrote:
      Hi,
      >
      Two questions for you all..
      >
      Firstly, is there a way ofstreamingvide ousing PHP? At the moment I just
      have a link to avideofile and the whole thing downloads before playing
      which is a bit of a chore as thevideofile is pretty huge.
      >
      Secondly, I want to restrict access to thevideousing a password. Can
      anyone think of a nice way of doing this? I thought about having thevideo
      embedded into a page and when the page loads it checks if a user is logged
      in and if not goes back to the login page, but that doesn't restict access
      to the actualvideo, IE: They can view source, find theVideolink and
      simply copy it into a browser window...
      >
      I look forward to your answers/advice
      >
      Steve

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        • Gary Hasler
          #3
          Re: Streaming Video - Secure

          SPG wrote:
          >
          Hi,
          >
          Two questions for you all..
          >
          Firstly, is there a way of streaming video using PHP? At the moment I just
          have a link to a video file and the whole thing downloads before playing
          which is a bit of a chore as the video file is pretty huge.
          >
          Secondly, I want to restrict access to the video using a password. Can
          anyone think of a nice way of doing this? I thought about having the video
          embedded into a page and when the page loads it checks if a user is logged
          in and if not goes back to the login page, but that doesn't restict access
          to the actual video, IE: They can view source, find the Video link and
          simply copy it into a browser window...
          Aside from PHP and the password issue, with most video types like .wmv,
          ..ram, etc, you can achieve a sort of pseudo-streaming effect without
          having to go to a true streaming server by setting your mime and file
          types properly so the web browser immediately passes the url off to the
          video player app rather than trying to download the file. (For example,
          with Realvideo types you can create a meta-file which only contains the
          url of the actual video; so the browser downloads the (tiny) metafile
          and gives it to Realplayer which then "streams" the actual video.)

          There's also other media types which handle their own internal
          streaming, like Flash.

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