Question

I want to record flash stream using php. Do u guys know how to do that? I want script to record for example youtube file playing. I have VPS so it can use some software.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

You can make script that simply downloads and saves the stream data in the file, but in that case, you must disable the 30 seconds limit for that file.
There can be made scripts that call themselves in infinite loop each 30 secs, but in that case you are in danger of missing some bytes from original stream.
But I don’t recomend doing this using PHP. This language is rather designed to quickly process data for user and end (its “script”).

Simplest script:

<?php
  $con = fsockopen("example.com",80):
  $file = fopen("data.flv","a");
  /*connection test skipped here*/
  fwrite("GET /stream1.flv HTTP/1.1\r\n",$con);
  fwrite("Connection: keep-alive\r\n",$con);
  fwrite("\r\n",$con);  //End of request data
  while(!eof($con)) {
    $bytes = fread($con,16);
    fwrite($file,$bytes);
  }
 ?>

Not recommended indeed.