Posted by Tyno Gendo on 04/13/07 08:16

Jerry Stuckle wrote:
> 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.
>

You don't want to be using an href. Try looking up OBJECT / EMBED tags
and embed the data in the web page inline. The OBJECT/EMBED parameters
will be different depending on what you're embedding.

Flash Video is quite popular (like on YouTube), if you decide to go that
route:

You can find free embeddable Flash video players on the web, have a look
at this tutorial if you decide to go the Flash Movie way:

http://granades.com/2006/09/14/how-to-put-flash-videos-on-your-blog-in-many-easy-steps/

There seems to be a nice link to a free Flash Video encoder which will
transform your AVI's here (we have full version of flash here so I
haven't used that but looks good):

http://www.rivavx.com/index.php?encoder&L=3

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