Or maybe I should say pseudo-stream... but hey, at least the headline got you to read the post :-)
I'm sure that by now you all know about this popular PHP approach to serving FLV videos progressively, but with the added benefit of being able to seek to any part of the video more or less immediately - something that traditional progressive delivery is not capable of.
The PHP approach (which in the meantime has been ported to many other server side languages such as ASP and ColdFusion) is targeted squarely at FLV delivery, a format which may lose a bit of its popularity over the coming months as H.264 support for Flash video becomes more widely available.
But fear not, because the clever guys from code-shop have alread been busy developing a H.264 pseudo streaming plugin for Lighty, a very light weight and performant webserver. The plugin allows Lighty to serve up H.264 encoded video content in an almost identical way to the 'old school' PHP method. The implementation as a webserver plugin is also much more efficient than the script based approach (which itself is not bad at all).
You can check out a demo here.


Posted on December 18, 2007 at 8:40 PM. 31345 views. 12 comments. Print