Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 04/12/07 22:22

Jim Ford wrote:
> 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

Jim,

You really need to ask this in an html group. You'll get better answers
there, spam or not.

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