Posted by bsa on 02/22/07 16:00

Steve,
PHP or not you should try VideoVista http://www.vista.it.

It plays virtually on any webserver regardless script language or
dedicated server.
Anyway using PHP you can achieve good user interaction with it.


Hope this could help you.

regards

Fabio




On Feb 22, 2:38 pm, "SPG" <steve.goods...@nospoo.blueyonder.co.uk>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Two questions for you all..
>
> Firstly, is there a way ofstreamingvideousing PHP? At the moment I just
> have a link to avideofile and the whole thing downloads before playing
> which is a bit of a chore as thevideofile is pretty huge.
>
> Secondly, I want to restrict access to thevideousing a password. Can
> anyone think of a nice way of doing this? I thought about having thevideo
> embedded into a page and when the page loads it checks if a user is logged
> in and if not goes back to the login page, but that doesn't restict access
> to the actualvideo, IE: They can view source, find theVideolink and
> simply copy it into a browser window...
>
> I look forward to your answers/advice
>
> Steve

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