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How to upload and stream videos?

May 21st, 2009

I assuming it is unefficent to upload and stream a video with php.
So this is a 2 part question (1. using php to upload the contents, 2. using php? flash? etc? to convert and play the video file).

1. How would I upload a video file? - Like a normal file?
2. Now If I converted to a fla format, I would do this before or after the video file is uploaded?
3. How do I stream a live video?
4. How much bandwidth am I looking at consuming?

In short im looking for video tutorials that can be used to upload and play your own videos (something similar to youtube - on a very small scale). What is the best way to do this?

Thankyou, Regards X

PS: The same concept for the video would be used for a powerpoint presentation?

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Re: How to upload and stream videos?

May 21st, 2009

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Originally Posted by OmniX

I assuming it is unefficent to upload and stream a video with php.
So this is a 2 part question (1. using php to upload the contents, 2. using php? flash? etc? to convert and play the video file).

1. How would I upload a video file? - Like a normal file?
2. Now If I converted to a fla format, I would do this before or after the video file is uploaded?
3. How do I stream a live video?
4. How much bandwidth am I looking at consuming?

In short im looking for video tutorials that can be used to upload and play your own videos (something similar to youtube - on a very small scale). What is the best way to do this?

Thankyou, Regards X

PS: The same concept for the video would be used for a powerpoint presentation?

Hi,

Acco'd to my knowledge uploading of any file can be done by PHP. And videos are converted on the fly to flv format from any format using FFMPEG. Basically to start a site like youtube or any thing which streams videos requires FFMPEG modules installed. And secondly the bandwidth issue is it depends on the file size. Say the video is of 1mb, you upload it, and is viewed 10 times. So the bandwidth used is 1+1*10=11mb used. I hope you understood.

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Re: How to upload and stream videos?

May 21st, 2009

Ya I gather most of that and I have uploaded files to a server before, details to a database, etc just never video.

When a person uploads a video the 'FFMPEG ' would convert it to fla and store it on the server and then would be avaliable to all to see? How would I code that? Would I need to make sure my server supports x, y and z?

I was thinking when you upload it FFMPEG converts it to fla and stores it and then you could easily make a webpage with basic html to play the file?

Let me know your ideas, more importantly example code but ideally some sort of website with a tutorial (I have searched and nothing but youtube this and youtube that tutorials).

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Re: How to upload and stream videos?

May 21st, 2009

I have a simple php upload script, but it does not play the movie. koolhq.com/upload.zip

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Re: How to upload and stream videos?

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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8"><meta name="distribution" content="global">
<meta http-equiv="content-Script-Type" content="text/javascript"><meta name="author" content="Rob Dockrey 2004">
<style type='text/css'>
<!--
.logo { 
 background-color: #eeeeee; 
 color: #000000;
 text-align: right; 
 font-family: verdana, geneva, arial, serif;
 font-size: 8pt;
 top: expression(document.body.scrollTop + 
 document.body.clientHeight - 
 offsetHeight );
 left: expression(document.body.scrollLeft + 
 document.body.clientWidth - 
 offsetWidth - 1 );
 position: absolute;
}
-->
</style>
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--//
function shrink(){
 document.getElementById("MediaPlayer1").style.width=384;
 document.getElementById("MediaPlayer1").style.height=300;
}
function enLarge(){
 document.getElementById("MediaPlayer1").style.width=480;
 document.getElementById("MediaPlayer1").style.height=402;
}
 //-->
</script>
<title>video - Entertainment - Dockrey Apartments</title>
</head><body><a name='top'></a>
<p class='logo'>
<button onclick="enLarge()">large</button>
<button onclick="shrink()">small</button>
<a class='button' href='..'>Main Menu</a>
<A href="http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/download/"><IMG ALT="Get Windows Media Player" SRC="http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/images/logos/getwm/mp11_88x31_static.gif" WIDTH="88" HEIGHT="31" BORDER="0"></A><br>
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<PARAM NAME="fileName" VALUE="">
<PARAM NAME="showControls" VALUE="true">
<PARAM NAME="PlayCount" VALUE="0">
<PARAM NAME="animationatStart" VALUE="true">
<PARAM NAME="transparentatStart" VALUE="true">
<PARAM NAME="autoStart" VALUE="true">
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	$script_name = $p[count($p)-1];
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 function check_image($filename){
 $temp=strtoupper(get_Extension($filename));
 if(($temp=="WMV")||($temp=="ASF"))
 return (true);
 else
 return (false);
 }
 Function get_Files($path) {
 	if ($handle = opendir($path)) {	
 		while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle))) { 
 		if(!is_dir($file) && substr($file,O,1) != "."){				
				$m_Files[]=$file;
 			}
 		}
 closedir($handle); 
 	}
 if(sizeof($m_Files)>1)
 asort($m_Files);
 return $m_Files;
 }
 $files=get_Files($path); 
 $filter_files=array_filter($files,"check_image");
 $maxnr=sizeof($filter_files)-1;
 sort($filter_files);
for ($i=0;$i<sizeof($filter_files);$i++){
	echo "<a class='button' onclick=\"MediaPlayer1.SRC='$filter_files[$i]';MediaPlayer1.fileName='$filter_files[$i]';\">";
	echo substr($filter_files[$i], 0, strlen($filter_files[$i])-4);
	echo "</a><br>";
 }
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</p>
</body></html>
<?php ob_flush(); ?>

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Re: How to upload and stream videos?

May 22nd, 2009

The code looks good but when I tried to run it, there was only an out of area media player available, no upload, no movie and also required active x.

Is there something more like you tube script available or something?

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Re: How to upload and stream videos?

May 22nd, 2009

google, utube clone script
upload and serve scripts are always separate
often in the same package, but separate

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Re: How to upload and stream videos?

May 22nd, 2009

almostbob - Will do so now, thanks.

I have been doing some research with php and video and the "FFMPEG" has come up several times, which will allow me to covnert and play my videos like youtube does but I havent found anything accurate yet.

So pretty much looking for a php video script that will lead to a mini website of youtube.

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Re: How to upload and stream videos?

May 29th, 2009

Hei,

I think this tutorial will be helpful. http://www.tutorialhero.com/tutorial...eg_and_php.php

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Re: How to upload and stream videos?

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May 31st, 2009

Here is a bit on uploading files in PHP:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/feature...ost-method.php

You can convert the file to flv after uploading using FFMPEG and FLVTool2 for the metadata.
FFMPEG-PHP can help with this: http://ffmpeg-php.sourceforge.net/

It's probably easier to use FFMPEG and FLVTool2 in the command line first and when you're successful, try doing it from PHP with exec().

The tutorial given previously explains this well.

You'll need root access to install FFMPEG and FLVTool2. If you don't have this, you could probably get away with uploading the video file to a site such as google video or youtube, and then downloading the converted FLV through their API.

Basically there are 2 ways of streaming the FLV to the flash player.

1) using HTTP
2) using a streaming protocols such as RTMP (Real Time Messaging Protocol)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_V...livery_options

Using RTMP requires a streaming server, such as Red5 (open source).

If you won't want to use a special server, just using your HTTP server would allow you to progressively download the FLV without any special setup. Just giving your choice of flash player (eg: http://www.longtailvideo.com/players/jw-flv-player/) the URL of the flv and it should "stream". The only thing it won't be able to do is seek (seek to a position not yet downloaded).

You can stream the FLV, and allow seeking using HTTP by having PHP control the HTTP stream:
http://www.flashcomguru.com/index.cf...a-PHP-take-two

Here is a PHP class based on this:
http://xmoov.com/xmoov-php/

There is a server implementation in Lighty based on the same:
http://blog.lighttpd.net/articles/20...-with-lighttpd
http://jan.kneschke.de/projects/flv-streaming/

This is better then using PHP, since PHP has a greater overhead, but it isn't a problem with just a few simultaneous downloads.

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