Today, HTML5 video player is being popular. It stream with a given video, If you need to control the streaming from your server script to provide additional facility like ACL/Auth, resume support, sending small videos etc. You can do all with PHP.
Following are PlayVideoStream class, Which you can use
class PlayVideoStream
{
/** set the private data members **/
private $path = "";
private $stream = "";
private $buffer = 1024000;
private $start = -1;
private $end = -1;
private $size = 0;
/** set the private data members **/
/** Set the video file path in while creating the object **/
function __construct($filePath)
{
$this->path = $filePath;
}
/**
* Open the file in read mode
*/
private function open()
{
if (!($this->stream = fopen($this->path, 'rb'))) {
die('Not able to read the file i.e '.$this->path);
}
}
/**
* Set header to serve the video play
* Here we are getting the mime type dynamically, for this you must enable php_fileinfo extension
*/
private function setHeader()
{
ob_get_clean();
$result = new finfo();
$videoType= $result->file($this->path, FILEINFO_MIME_TYPE); //Get the correct video type
header("Content-Type: ".$videoType);
header("Cache-Control: max-age=2592000, public");
header("Expires: ".gmdate('D, d M Y H:i:s', time()+2592000) . ' GMT');
header("Last-Modified: ".gmdate('D, d M Y H:i:s', @filemtime($this->path)) . ' GMT' );
$this->start = 0;
$this->size = filesize($this->path);
$this->end = $this->size - 1;
header("Accept-Ranges: 0-".$this->end);
if (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_RANGE'])) {
$c_start = $this->start;
$c_end = $this->end;
list(, $range) = explode('=', $_SERVER['HTTP_RANGE'], 2);
if (strpos($range, ',') !== false) {
header('HTTP/1.1 416 Requested Range Not Satisfiable');
header("Content-Range: bytes $this->start-$this->end/$this->size");
exit;
}
if ($range == '-') {
$c_start = $this->size - substr($range, 1);
}else{
$range = explode('-', $range);
$c_start = $range[0];
$c_end = (isset($range[1]) && is_numeric($range[1])) ? $range[1] : $c_end;
}
$c_end = ($c_end > $this->end) ? $this->end : $c_end;
if ($c_start > $c_end || $c_start > $this->size - 1 || $c_end >= $this->size) {
header('HTTP/1.1 416 Requested Range Not valid');
header("Content-Range: bytes $this->start-$this->end/$this->size");
exit;
}
$this->start = $c_start;
$this->end = $c_end;
$length = $this->end - $this->start + 1;
fseek($this->stream, $this->start);
header('HTTP/1.1 206 Partial Content');
header("Content-Length: ".$length);
header("Content-Range: bytes $this->start-$this->end/".$this->size);
}
else
{
header("Content-Length: ".$this->size);
}
}
/**
* close curretly opened stream
*/
private function end()
{
fclose($this->stream); die;
}
/**
* perform the streaming of calculated range
*/
private function stream()
{
$i = $this->start;
set_time_limit(0);
while(!feof($this->stream) && $i <= $this->end) {
$bytesToRead = $this->buffer;
if(($i+$bytesToRead) > $this->end) {
$bytesToRead = $this->end - $i + 1;
}
$data = fread($this->stream, $bytesToRead);
echo $data;
flush();
$i += $bytesToRead;
}
}
/**
* Start streaming video content
*/
function start()
{
$this->open();
$this->setHeader();
$this->stream();
$this->end();
}
}
Question: How to play video with above class?
$filePath='c://wamp/www/project/public_html/videos/myvideoFile.mp4';
//$filePath='c://wamp/www/project/public_html/videos/myvideoFile1.mp3';
//$filePath='c://wamp/www/project/public_html/videos/myvideoFile2.mp4';
//$filePath='c://wamp/www/project/public_html/videos/myvideoFile3.3gp';
$stream = new PlayVideoStream($filePath);
$stream->start();
