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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