Run Video File in browser

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nil_gh_80 -2 Junior Poster in Training

16 Years Ago

I want to run video files in browser ...............

which format will be suitible for it..

and how to do this using HTML & PHP...

Need help.......

php

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praveen_dusari 11 Posting Whiz in Training

16 Years Ago

hi nil
checkout this code which will upload only avi,dat,mpg and wmv video files only create uplodedvideos in ur folder

if($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD']=='POST')
{
if($HTTP_POST_FILES["video"]["size"] >1) {	 // for  large image 1
			 $ext = substr($HTTP_POST_FILES['video']['name'],strpos($HTTP_POST_FILES['video']['name'],'.')+1);
			$ext_arr=array("avi","dat","mpg","wmv");
			//if (in_array($ext,$ext_arr)) { 			
				 $prlvideo=substr($HTTP_POST_FILES['video']['name'],0,strpos($HTTP_POST_FILES['video']['name'],'.'));
				$prlvideo.=time();
				 $prlvideo.=strstr($HTTP_POST_FILES['video']['name'],'.'); 	
				$prlvideo="uplodedvideos/".$prlvideo;			
				if(!move_uploaded_file($HTTP_POST_FILES['video']['tmp_name'],$prlvideo)) { $prlvideo=""; }
				chmod($prlvideo,0777); 
								
			} else {		
				$prlvideo="";
			}
			
			 $v = substr($HTTP_POST_FILES['video']['name'],strpos($HTTP_POST_FILES['video']['name'],'.')+1);
			 if($v=='avi' || $v=='dat' || $v=='mpg' || $v=='wmv')
			 {
			 
	  $qry2="INSERT INTO vdo_cat(`c_name`,`videos`,`parent_id`)VALUES ('".$_POST['txtsubcategory']."','".$prlvideo."','".$_POST['selcategory']."')";
			 $res2=mysql_query($qry2) or die(mysql_error()); if($res2==1)
				 {
				 	header("location:manage_videos.php?msg=ad");
				 }
				 }
				 else
			 {
			 $vmsg="You must upload only videos....";
			 
			 }
			
				}

praveen_dusari 11 Posting Whiz in Training

16 Years Ago

hi,
here is the code for displaying videos for the code above

<?	
include_once('functions.php');
include_once('conn.php');
if(!empty($_GET['pid']))
{
	 $pqry="SELECT * FROM vdo_cat where c_id=".$_GET['pid'];
	$pres=mysql_query($pqry) or die(mysql_error());
	$prow=mysql_fetch_array($pres);
	$len=strrpos($prow['videos'],'.');
	$vtype=substr($prow['videos'],$len+1,5);
	echo $vname=($prow['videos']);
	if(isset($vtype))
	{
?>
<html>
<link href="site.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<style type="text/css">
<!--
body {
	margin-left: 0px;
	margin-top: 0px;
	margin-right: 0px;
	margin-bottom: 0px;
}
-->
</style>
<meta http-equiv="Page-Enter" content="blendTrans(Duration=0.5)">
<body>
<table width="100%" height="100%" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" bgcolor="#83CBED">
  <tr>
    <td bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><table width="100%" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
      <tr>
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td align="center" valign="middle"><object id="MediaPlayer1" width="180" height="200"
classid="CLSID:22D6F312-B0F6-11D0-94AB-0080C74C7E95"
codebase="http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/mplayer/en/nsmp2inf.cab#Version=5,1,52,701"
standby="Loading Microsoft® Windows® Media Player components..."
type="application/x-oleobject" align="middle">
<param name="FileName" value="video path/<?=$vname; ?>">
<param name="ShowStatusBar" value="True">
<param name="DefaultFrame" value="mainFrame">
<param name="autostart" value="false">
<embed type="application/x-mplayer2"
pluginspage = "http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/MediaPlayer/"
src="../banjara_admin/videos/<?=$vname; ?>"
autostart="false"
align="middle"
width="176"
height="144"
defaultframe="rightFrame"
showstatusbar="true">
</embed>
</object>
<a href="YourFilesName.mpeg"><font size="2">Clickhere for standalone player</font></a>
<a href="http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/mp10/default.aspx">
<font size="1">Download Windows Media Player Here</font></a></p></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td></td><? } }?>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td align="center" valign="middle"><a href="#" class="orngsml" onClick="javascript:window.close();" ><strong>Close</strong></a></td>
      </tr>
    </table></td>
  </tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

when user clicks on play videos will play in a window in my program (see above... 'pid' )
it worked fine for me

praveen_dusari 11 Posting Whiz in Training

16 Years Ago

yes it will,check my code if any errors let us know

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nil_gh_80 -2 Junior Poster in Training · Answer 1 · 2008-08-08T13:49:41+00:00

I want to run video files in browser ...............
which format will be suitible for it..
and how to do this using HTML & PHP...
Need help.......

Some one help me with some code...........

nil_gh_80 -2 Junior Poster in Training · Answer 2 · 2008-08-08T15:45:21+00:00

hi nil
checkout this code which will upload only avi,dat,mpg and wmv video files only create uplodedvideos in ur folder

if($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD']=='POST')
{
if($HTTP_POST_FILES["video"]["size"] >1) {	 // for  large image 1
			 $ext = substr($HTTP_POST_FILES['video']['name'],strpos($HTTP_POST_FILES['video']['name'],'.')+1);
			$ext_arr=array("avi","dat","mpg","wmv");
			//if (in_array($ext,$ext_arr)) { 			
				 $prlvideo=substr($HTTP_POST_FILES['video']['name'],0,strpos($HTTP_POST_FILES['video']['name'],'.'));
				$prlvideo.=time();
				 $prlvideo.=strstr($HTTP_POST_FILES['video']['name'],'.'); 	
				$prlvideo="uplodedvideos/".$prlvideo;			
				if(!move_uploaded_file($HTTP_POST_FILES['video']['tmp_name'],$prlvideo)) { $prlvideo=""; }
				chmod($prlvideo,0777); 
								
			} else {		
				$prlvideo="";
			}
			
			 $v = substr($HTTP_POST_FILES['video']['name'],strpos($HTTP_POST_FILES['video']['name'],'.')+1);
			 if($v=='avi' || $v=='dat' || $v=='mpg' || $v=='wmv')
			 {
			 
	  $qry2="INSERT INTO vdo_cat(`c_name`,`videos`,`parent_id`)VALUES ('".$_POST['txtsubcategory']."','".$prlvideo."','".$_POST['selcategory']."')";
			 $res2=mysql_query($qry2) or die(mysql_error()); if($res2==1)
				 {
				 	header("location:manage_videos.php?msg=ad");
				 }
				 }
				 else
			 {
			 $vmsg="You must upload only videos....";
			 
			 }
			
				}

Thanx for ur attention...........But my problem is how to display uploaded videos in any browser using WM player

nil_gh_80 -2 Junior Poster in Training · Answer 3 · 2008-08-08T16:15:48+00:00

hi,
here is the code for displaying videos for the code above

<?	
include_once('functions.php');
include_once('conn.php');
if(!empty($_GET['pid']))
{
	 $pqry="SELECT * FROM vdo_cat where c_id=".$_GET['pid'];
	$pres=mysql_query($pqry) or die(mysql_error());
	$prow=mysql_fetch_array($pres);
	$len=strrpos($prow['videos'],'.');
	$vtype=substr($prow['videos'],$len+1,5);
	echo $vname=($prow['videos']);
	if(isset($vtype))
	{
?>
<html>
<link href="site.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<style type="text/css">
<!--
body {
	margin-left: 0px;
	margin-top: 0px;
	margin-right: 0px;
	margin-bottom: 0px;
}
-->
</style>
<meta http-equiv="Page-Enter" content="blendTrans(Duration=0.5)">
<body>
<table width="100%" height="100%" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" bgcolor="#83CBED">
  <tr>
    <td bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><table width="100%" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
      <tr>
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td align="center" valign="middle"><object id="MediaPlayer1" width="180" height="200"
classid="CLSID:22D6F312-B0F6-11D0-94AB-0080C74C7E95"
codebase="http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/mplayer/en/nsmp2inf.cab#Version=5,1,52,701"
standby="Loading Microsoft® Windows® Media Player components..."
type="application/x-oleobject" align="middle">
<param name="FileName" value="video path/<?=$vname; ?>">
<param name="ShowStatusBar" value="True">
<param name="DefaultFrame" value="mainFrame">
<param name="autostart" value="false">
<embed type="application/x-mplayer2"
pluginspage = "http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/MediaPlayer/"
src="../banjara_admin/videos/<?=$vname; ?>"
autostart="false"
align="middle"
width="176"
height="144"
defaultframe="rightFrame"
showstatusbar="true">
</embed>
</object>
<a href="YourFilesName.mpeg"><font size="2">Clickhere for standalone player</font></a>
<a href="http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/mp10/default.aspx">
<font size="1">Download Windows Media Player Here</font></a></p></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td></td><? } }?>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td align="center" valign="middle"><a href="#" class="orngsml" onClick="javascript:window.close();" ><strong>Close</strong></a></td>
      </tr>
    </table></td>
  </tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

when user clicks on play videos will play in a window in my program (see above... 'pid' )
it worked fine for me

You have included function.php do this page compile without this file

ahmksssv 0 Junior Poster in Training · Answer 4 · 2009-02-19T14:41:02+00:00

Hi Praveen...

This is great....

I want some clarity about this video playing...

Can u send me the two php files with data base table....because the above two files are not matching with their column names...i am confusing....plz send me clearly with patiencs...

Thank u..

nikesh.yadav 4 Posting Whiz in Training · Answer 5 · 2009-03-20T17:04:20+00:00

nikesh.yadav 4 Posting Whiz in Training

15 Years Ago

nice post

samarudge 16 Posting Whiz · Answer 6 · 2009-03-22T23:17:33+00:00

Why not just use FLV? its a lot simpler and will work in Firefox/Safari as well as IE
P.S. I know you can run WMP plugin in firefox but its an extra download you don't need (Not sure about Safari thoug)

almostbob 866 Retired: passive income ROCKS · Answer 7 · 2009-03-23T00:06:50+00:00

yet another drop in media player

<?php ob_start("ob_gzhandler"); ?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">
<head>
<style>
.logo { background: transparent; color: #000000; text-align: right; top: auto; left: auto; bottom: 1px; right: 1px; position: fixed; }
</style>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8">
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--//
function shrink(){
 document.getElementById("MediaPlayer1").style.width=384;
 document.getElementById("MediaPlayer1").style.height=300;
}
function enLarge(){
 document.getElementById("MediaPlayer1").style.width=480;
 document.getElementById("MediaPlayer1").style.height=402;
}
 //-->
</script>
<title>video</title>
</head><body><a name='top'></a>
<p class='logo'>
<button onclick="enLarge()">large</button>
<button onclick="shrink()">small</button>
<A HREF="http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/download/"><IMG ALT="Get Windows Media Player" SRC="http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/images/logos/getwm/mp11_88x31_static.gif" WIDTH="88" HEIGHT="31" BORDER="0"></A><br>
<OBJECT ID="MediaPlayer1" width=384 height=300 classid="CLSID:22D6F312-B0F6-11D0-94AB-0080C74C7E95" codebase="http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/mplayer/en/nsmp2inf.cab#Version=6,0,02,902" standby="Loading Microsoft Windows Media Player components..." type="application/x-oleobject">
<PARAM NAME="fileName" VALUE="">
<PARAM NAME="showControls" VALUE="true">
<PARAM NAME="PlayCount" VALUE="0">
<PARAM NAME="animationatStart" VALUE="true">
<PARAM NAME="transparentatStart" VALUE="true">
<PARAM NAME="autoStart" VALUE="true">
<EMBED type="application/x-mplayer2" pluginspage="http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/MediaPlayer/" SRC="" name="MediaPlayer1" width=360 height=260 AutoStart=true></EMBED></object></p>
<div style='float:left; text-align:left;'>
<?php $p = split('/', $_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME']);
$script_name = $p[count($p)-1];
$path = str_replace($script_name, '', $_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME']);
$dir_handle = @opendir($path) or die("Unable to open $path");
Function get_Extension($m_FileName){
$path_parts = pathinfo($m_FileName);
if ($path_parts["extension"]) {
 $m_Extension = strtolower($path_parts["extension"]);
 return(strtoupper($m_Extension));
 }
else { return "unknown file"; }
 }
 function check_image($filename){
 $temp=strtoupper(get_Extension($filename));
 if(($temp=="WMV")||($temp=="ASF"))
 return (true);
 else
 return (false);
 }
 Function get_Files($path) {
 if ($handle = opendir($path)) {	
  while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle))) { 
  if(!is_dir($file) && substr($file,O,1) != ".") { 
$m_Files[]=$file; }
}
 closedir($handle); 
}
 if(sizeof($m_Files)>1)
 asort($m_Files);
 return $m_Files;
 }
 $files=get_Files($path); 
 $filter_files=array_filter($files,"check_image");
 $maxnr=sizeof($filter_files)-1;
 sort($filter_files);
for ($i=0;$i<sizeof($filter_files);$i++){
echo "<a onclick=\"MediaPlayer1.SRC='$filter_files[$i]';MediaPlayer1.fileName='$filter_files[$i]';\">";
echo substr($filter_files[$i], 0, strlen($filter_files[$i])-4);
echo "</a><br>";
 }
closedir($dir_handle); ?>
</table></body></html>
<?php ob_flush(); ?>

amit.singh9 0 Newbie Poster · Answer 8 · 2012-02-13T17:48:12+00:00

You have included function.php do this page compile without this file

Hi,

Can, you provide me some running example. It will be great helpful for me. My mail id is <snipped>.

Thanks in advance.