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 Posted by Jim Ford on 04/12/07 21:02 
This is more strictly an HTML problem, but as I'm also using PHP and the  
HTML groups seem to be infested with spam, I'm posting it here! 
 
At the school where I work I've got an online searchable database of  
video tapes and dvds, using MySql and PHP on a Linux machine. It works  
fine. I'm trancoding  some of the tapes to avi files, which can be  
accessed as a samba share. I'd like to put clickable links into the  
database, so if a user sees the file is coloured blue, they can click it  
and it plays. I've got it working, but: 
 
Using a 'href' link in HTML code of the PHP powered web page, the file  
is downloaded at the user end completely before it starts playing, which  
results in an unacceptably long delay. But if a user accesses the file  
directly using the samba share directory, the video starts almost  
immediately and 'streams'. 
 
How can I embed into my PHP powered web page a link that uses samba file  
sharing, so it streams, please? 
 
Jim Ford
 
  
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