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FLV 'streaming' with PHP and Lighty - Update

Posted by Stefan Richter in Videos & Players | 13 Comments

Fabian Topfstedt, a fellow developer, has kindly donated a new player (scrubber.fla) which in combination with Lighty is able to pseudo-stream flv video files as described in this post.

Features:
* Lightweight 54kb swf-player
* Plays an aspect ratio of 4:3 (or everything else letterboxed)
* Shows metadata of video within the contextmenu
* Autoplays videos (via parameter) or wait for user to push the playbutton (default)
* Parameterized bufferlength (default: 3s)
* lighttpd and mod_flv_streaming support

You can download the fla (MX 2004 required) and compiled swf (Player 7 required) here.

Files are released under a
Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 License.

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Posted on June 18, 2006 at 9:36 PM. 13984 views. 13 comments. Print

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#1 by Fabian Topfstedt on 6/18/06 - 8:56 PM

Thanks a lot for compiling it! :)
Fabian
#2 by Fabian Topfstedt on 6/18/06 - 9:28 PM

Look at or copy the wrappercode sample at http://www.topfstedt.de/scrubber_lighty/wrappercod... to see how the scrubber-swf-embedding works!
#3 by Jeniffer on 3/21/07 - 5:24 PM

Hola fabian, great stuff.
The link to the wrappercode seems broken...can you fix it please ? i'm really interested in your work
#4 by Fabian Topfstedt on 3/21/07 - 6:01 PM

Hi Jennifer, the link works, but have a look at the new version: http://www.topfstedt.de/weblog/?page_id=208

cheers, Fabian
#5 by szataniol on 5/9/07 - 1:10 PM

First of all 54 kb is pretty a lot, second thing is that this player is bugged like hell.
#6 by Fabian Topfstedt on 5/9/07 - 2:21 PM

Szataniol, altough I'm not looking forward to communicate in that manner, at least one fact would give me a chance to understand problems.
Fabian
#7 by arun on 5/18/07 - 9:49 AM

Can u please let me know were to place my video files in server and play the same using the player
#8 by Joe on 6/14/07 - 8:33 AM

I'm sorry to nag, I'm so new to the whole web site thing that I'm still wet. I've gone through all 3 blog pages connected to this, downloaded all files and the video converter flvmdi.

Now I'm completely stuck as I have no idea how to use these. I tried going to flvprovider.php passing the arguement ?file=golfers and nothing happens. I've tried going to scrubber.fla with the arguement ?file=golfers and nothing happens. Now I've downloaded scrubber lighty and FLVScrubber 2 and now I at least get a video window opened when I go to scrubber.swf?file=golfers or FLVScrubber2.swf?file=golfers, but it just sits at buffering the video and never playing it.

I know I'm missing something pretty basic, but I just dont know what it is. I also can't figure out why everyone video window is small and nice and Mine is the size of Texas. I've been trying for 2 days now and I just can't get it. I if someone could just post an example php page that can load the video and play it I'll figure it out, no need to explain. I can google anything I don't understand, but right now I don't even know what to begin googling for.

Thanks,
Joe
#9 by Fabian Topfstedt on 6/14/07 - 8:47 AM

Hi Joe, Hi aron,

please use a full url as the parameter of file (like file=http://www.yourpage.com/videos/golfers.flv)

cheers,
Fabian
#10 by Fabian on 6/14/07 - 8:50 AM

... a sample for the requested code is shown at http://www.topfstedt.de/weblog/?page_id=208 ...

cheers, Fabian
#11 by Peter on 6/21/09 - 2:49 PM

Does the previewImage work in IE8, coz mine doesnt seem to load
#12 by Ramon Fritsch on 10/7/10 - 12:20 PM

An option to do a f4v pseudo streaming is http://github.com/ramonfritsch/php-f4v-streming

Please help me to develop this thing.
#13 by Flv player on 8/5/11 - 6:07 AM

Pseudostreaming does not work by default on any webserver. A serverside module is needed to enable it. Here are the two most widely used (and open source) modules for this:

The H264 streaming module for Apache, Lighttpd, IIS and NginX. It supports MP4 videos.
The FLV streaming module for Lighttpd. It supports FLV videos.
In addition to using a serverside module, pseudostreaming can be enabled by using a serverside script (in e.g. PHP or .NET) and http property with HD Webplayer. We do not advise this, since such a script consumes a lot of resources, has security implications and can only be used with FLV files.

For more help... http://plestar.com/?q=standalone-examples-http-str...