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Stream an FLV file from an external URL?
Hey freaks,

Imagining i have the full http path to the FLV file, can i possibly stream the file there by my readers can skip ahead in the video without having to wait for it to pre-load. right now am using the JW FLV Player on my blog to embed FLV videos from other sites. I need to stream files that are located on an external server.i heard some thing about HTTP Video streaming using the XMoov-PHP script but it only gives information about streaming video files that are hosted locally on your own server.

Any help will be greatly received !!

#2
18-07-2009

Techno01
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Re: Stream an FLV file from an external URL?
while dealing with FLV files, you need to set your server to work with the FLV file format. MIME is a standardized data specification that will allows you forward non-ASCII files through out the Internet connections. Web browsers and e-mail clients are set topresent numerous MIME types there by they can forward and receive video, audio, graphics, and formatted text. in order to load FLV files from a web server, register the file extension and MIME type with your web server, so you should check your web server documentation. The MIME type for FLV files is video/x-flv.

#3
18-07-2009

Techguru01
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Re: Stream an FLV file from an external URL?
My guess is that you can only stream the files from an external server, if that external server is a streaming server, either fraud with scripts, lightTPD, or RTMP.but you know what If you use the JW FLV Media Player to play YouTube videos through the YouTube API, the scrubbing might work

#4
18-07-2009

johnson22
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Re: Stream an FLV file from an external URL?
I did not tested code for handing off from Apache PHP to LightTPD for the video streaming.If you only want to access an external file, that is just some server configuration.which depends on how external you need to go ahead, may be you can tell an external location on a Network File System.but keep in mind that the stream will pass through the origin server which eventually doubles the traffic unless you use a redirect to the external server, then you lose control of the stream though.