Parse FLV from anothrer server to user.

[cgimusic]

I have an on another server. http://www.example.com/video.flv. I want to parse it streight to the user. Should I use curl or readfile. Any help is greatly appreciated.

[dreamwest]

You want to download or play?

 

You can do both without curl or readfile

 

If your trying to open a remote flv file with readfile itll show crap, youll have to do that with curl, and its really quite simple, i usually transfer flv files between my 2 servers using curl

 

You can get alot of info about a flv file without downloading it like this one:

 

$ch = curl_init($remote);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_NOBODY, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true); 
$data = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
if ($data === false) {
  echo 'cURL failed';
  exit;
}

$contentLength = 'unknown';

if (preg_match('/Content-Length: (\d+)/', $data, $matches)) {
  $contentLength = (int)$matches[1];
}

$filesize = round((($contentLength / 1224) / 1224)) + 4;
//echo $filesize;

if($filesize < 100){
echo "Im over 100MB";
}else{
echo "Im under 100MB";
}

 

 

[cgimusic]

I want to stream a YouTube video through my server to a flash FLV player. What is wrong with this code? I just get a blank page.

 

$ch=curl_init("http://www.youtube.com/get_video?video_id=".$_GET["id"]."&t=".$vars["t"]);
curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

[MadTechie]

check the URL manually, do you get the flv file ?

[cgimusic]

check the URL manually, do you get the flv file ?

 

Yes. The URL is correct.

[MadTechie]

can you give me a id and t, i'll test here

[cgimusic]

can you give me a id and t, i'll test here

 

I don't know how long it is valid for but here you go:

http://www.youtube.com/get_video?video_id=-xlAyxtEMFk&t=vjVQa1PpcFNIY3tmSkt3E8BtQq2ELdBONL-JtVLCY30%3D

[MadTechie]

got a blank page

[cgimusic]

It probably expired. Here is my script currently.

<?php
error_reporting(E_ALL);
$file = file("http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=".$_GET["id"]);
for ($count=0;$count<count($file);$count+=1) {
if (preg_match('/.*?(var swfArgs)/',$file[$count])) {
	$linestring=$file[$count];
};
};
$url=explode("\"",$linestring);
$count=1;
while(isset($url[$count])&&!$url[$count]==""){
$vars[$url[$count]]=$url[$count+2];
$count=$count+4;
};
echo "http://www.youtube.com/get_video?video_id=".$_GET["id"]."&t=".$vars["t"];
//$ch=curl_init("http://www.youtube.com/get_video?video_id=".$_GET["id"]."&t=".$vars["t"]);
//curl_exec($ch);
//curl_close($ch);
?>

[cgimusic]

Here is what  I get when I visit a link:

[MadTechie]

you could just change

echo "http://www.youtube.com/get_video?video_id=".$_GET["id"]."&t=".$vars["t"];

to

header('Content-Type: video/x-flv');
readfile("http://www.youtube.com/get_video?video_id=".$_GET["id"]."&t=".$vars["t"]);