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serving MP4 files with PHP

Hey,

last time i have posted here this thread :

http://www.longtailvideo.com/support/forums/jw-player/setup-issues-and-embedding/32307/streaming-mp4-files-with-skipping-option#comment-181359

which is locked now.

i have been searching on the net for a while and think that i figured out what is the problem, my system using php to serve the MP4 files and thus MP4 pseudo streaming doesn't work for me, i am kinda newbie with this .

ive looked at this page : http://codeblog.palos.ro/2008/11/13/pseudo-streaming-mp4h264-video-from-php/

and tried to implement this with no success, in addition im using JWPlayer5 (and not 4) .

the php extension is installed on my apache server .

this is my current code : http://pastebin.com/HGCRSbX5

and idea of how can i serve the MP4 files ? or any help with implement this mod...

thanks for the help, it is much appreciated .

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Ethan Feldman

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Can I see where this is running ?

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JW Player

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a MP4 file within my player can be seen here :
http://www.emath.co.il/forums/media/m566-803

as it can be seen, now the pseodo-streaming option is not working .

though now im not using the pss extension.. for one reason its working only with JWPlayer 4 and second it disable the watching option for FLV either .

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Ethan Feldman

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This is set up not right for pseudo streaming in JW5.

Please look over – http://www.longtailvideo.com/support/jw5/31144/http-pseudo-streaming

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JW Player

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thats the current script : http://pastebin.com/RhRxuKP4

and no, this is not the problem - i set it right now (you can see in the above link) and yet no change but now the the skipping option doesnt work for flv files .

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Ethan Feldman

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So then you have both modules installed then?

One for MP4 and one for FLV?

Why use FLV if MP4 has been supported by Flash for years now, and more importantly HTML5?

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JW Player

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i have one module installed ( http://h264.code-shop.com/trac/wiki )

i have another extension installed from this page : http://codeblog.palos.ro/2008/11/13/pseudo-streaming-mp4h264-video-from-php/ , cause i serve the files with PHP .

and this is what im trying to do, moving to MP4 format, though, as described, skipping option doesnt work for MP4 files for some reason and thus im still working with FLV unfortunately .

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JW Player

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just to mention again, im not using the extension from the blog mentioned above cause it didnt work.

please help me find a solution for this matter .

thanks .

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Ethan Feldman

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Ok, I understand. I just have not seen an issue like this before, I will ask others for suggestions though.

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JW Player

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great, hopefully someone will know how to solve this issue.

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Ethan Feldman

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Yeah

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JW Player

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hey,

any progress ? =

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JW Player

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please, anyone?

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JeroenW

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I wouldn’t know this either, unfortunately.

Note that, because of its setup and performance issues, we stopped supporting pseudo-streaming with a PHP script in JW6. If you are willing to take a step back, I’d suggest to simply serve videos as plain MP4 with HTML5 primary.

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JW Player

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yes, but the problem is that the videos need to be secured .

what are my other options now? do you have any idea who i can apply to ?

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Darjan

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Moshe,

We have a blog post on this topic here: http://www.longtailvideo.com/blog/13088/securing-your-content/

Best,

Darjan

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JW Player

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thanks, though this doesnt help me. the videos are already secured. the problem is with securing MP4 files...

no one knows who i can apply to, to get some help, even if it costs some money..??

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Ethan Feldman

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We don’t do paid work, sorry.

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