I need to stream an flv file.
Streaming should look like live streaming,
and I there should be a way to change the target file.
Sorry for my poor English.
I need to stream an flv file. Streaming should look like live streaming, and
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I need to stream an flv file.
Streaming should look like live streaming,
and I there should be a way to change the target file.
Sorry for my poor English.
If by “streaming” you mean “showing a flash-video clip”, flv-streaming isn’t really streaming, but it’s a normal file transfer, with the flash player starting playback even if the file isn’t completely downloaded to the client. Time seeking is implemented in a standard HTTP way, with a file download offset – if you scroll the video halfway on the timeline and it hasn’t downloaded yet, the current download is (most often) aborted, and restarted with an offset of filesize/2 bytes.
So, you could be fine with just using plain old
readfile()and fixing the HTTP mime-type headers appropriately withheader(). But, since you’d need seeking, you need to parse the HTTP request and instead ofreadfile(), usefpassthru(), seeking the right place, instead.tl;dr: Avoid handling this on the PHP side, and let Apache (or the httpd of your choice) handle this instead.