player loads the WHOLE .swf

[cemsung]

Hi,

I am trying to stream a .swf from apache via php:

header("Cache-Control: public, max-age=31536000");
header("X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff");
header("Content-Type: application/x-shockwave-flash");
header('Content-Length: '. $length);

$buffer = 4096;

while(!feof($handle))
{
$data = fgets($handle,$buffer);
echo $data;
}
fclose($handle);
exit;


and I have the following swfobject code

var flashvars = {};
var params = {
play: "false",
loop: "false",
menu: "true"
};
var attributes = {};
swfobject.embedSWF("index.php?media=part_1.swf",
"divpart1", "800", "600", "9.0.0", false, flashvars, params,
attributes);


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when I load the html the page starts to download the whole video (211
mb) ... how can I stop that and only have it stream? what am I doing
wrong or not doing? Thanks for you help in advance!

[Sam Sherlock]

I would look at one the the many media player flash projects

such as

http://www.longtailvideo.com/players/jw-flv-player/

http://www.openvideoplayer.com/

swfObject can embed the flash but its within the flash that the streaming is handled (later flash versions handle this better)

- S

2009/6/17 cemsung <cem...@gmail.com>

[Aran Rhee]

@semsung

 

Why are you trying to stream a swf rather than a FLV / MP4 if it is video?

 

.swf is a progressive download file format, not a streaming format, so I am not sure what you are expecting to achieve.

 

A swf can playback a external video file, and I think this is what you are really trying to do. A bit of research in how you are trying to achieve your goals would be useful to you.

 

Aran