Posted by David Wahler on 09/30/66 11:37

askMe wrote:
> Oli Filth wrote:
> > Well, you didn't say that originally - and it still has no bearing on
> > the problem, as all PHP is doing is generating some HTML. The problem is
> > either with the HTML itself, or with the video file, or the way that
> > your server is serving up the video file, none of which is related to PHP.
> >
> > You'd be far better asking this sort of question in alt.html or similar,
> > preferably with a URL to the page in question, so people have some
> > chance of figuring out what might be wrong.
> >
> I don't want to use the HTML. That is a temporary fix until I can find
> or create the proper php object. I was hoping that someone could lead
> me to the appropriate php object or some open source that would handle
> this problem. I know that there are all sorts of home made php apps
> out there that have the ability to either convert movies to other
> formats, compress them using php, or create specialty objects that
> mimmick flash objects even. I've seen a lot of them, but, the old
> freebies are now trial applications that expire or require modifying
> the server. Thank you anyway.

The behavior of the user's browser and/or media player is solely
determined by what gets output by your PHP code. Any objects or
whatever you create in PHP will have no bearing whatsoever on what the
browser gets - only the end result (the outputted HTML) is important.

If you can't get the video to play properly in a static HTML page, PHP
is going to be of no use to you. Personally, I'd say part of the
problem could be that the <embed> HTML tag is mostly obsolete, and you
should try using <object> -- but none of this has anything at all to do
with PHP.

-- David

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