Webcam on websites? Ugh!!!

Hello All A client wants a webcam on his site. Does any body know what script is used and how it works. Is there anyone out there with experience of this. ------------------------------------------- Mark Webley Multimedia design and development WebleyCity Limited London United Kingdom mark@webleycity.com mark.webley@psion.net Mobile: 07980 213 627 Fax/Tel: 0208 678 1721 Pager 07654 581816 http://www.webleycity.co.uk ------------------------------------------- > From: "Stephen VanDyke" <stephen.vandyke@natnet.com> > Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 12:07:38 -0500 > To: <php-general@lists.php.net> > Cc: "Stephen VanDyke [NN]" <stephen.vandyke@natnet.com> > Subject: [PHP] streaming media via php > > Hello PHP people :) > > I have a tough one here, I wrote a content script that plays media files, > but I can't seem to get things to actually buffer and stream as they should. > Here's the conundrum: > > http://server/media/file.asf - Media player will buffer and > start playing > before download completes > http://server/content.php?f=media/file.asf - Media player has > to download > entire file before it starts trying to play > > Here's the source of content.php, anyone see anything obvious that I'm > missing? I've been all over the HTTP/1.1 spec and media RFCs trying to > figure out what the heck I'm missing. Windows Media Player interprets the > media name as "content" if that's any help. Alse, the mime types are all > correct so that's not the issue, I'm just trying to figure out how to make > the players buffer+play instead of download+play. > > <?php > $mime_type = strtolower(strrchr($f,'.')); > $mime_type_array = array( > '.asf' => 'application/vnd.ms-asf', > '.avi' => 'video/x-msvideo', > '.gif' => 'image/gif', > '.jpg' => 'image/jpeg', > '.mov' => 'video/quicktime', > '.mpe' => 'video/mpeg', > '.mpeg' => 'video/mpeg', > '.mpg' => 'video/mpeg', > '.ra' => 'audio/x-pn-realaudio', > '.ram' => 'audio/x-pn-realaudio', > '.rm' => 'audio/x-pn-realaudio', > '.wmv' => 'audio/x-ms-wmv' > ); > > // this is our security, bleh > if(!in_array($mime_type,array_keys($mime_type_array))) > { > header("Location: /error.php"); > } > $filename = '/path/to/'.$f; > $dlname = substr(strrchr($filename,'/'),1); > $offset = (isset($nocache)?0:(86400 * 3)); > header("Accept-Ranges: bytes"); > header("Expires: ".gmdate("D, d M Y H:i:s \G\M\T", time() + $offset)); > header("Cache-Control: max-age=".$offset); > header("Last-modified : ".gmdate("D, d M Y H:i:s \G\M\T", > filemtime($filename))); > header("Content-Length: ".filesize($filename)); > header("Content-Disposition: filename=$dlname"); > if($debugx==1) > { > phpinfo(); > } > else > { > header("Content-Type: ".$mime_type_array[$mime_type]); > @readfile($filename); > } > ?> > > Thanks in advance for any help, > Please cc me on any replies since I am not on this mailing list. > > Stephen VanDyke > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > >