What are some common methods for streaming videos on a website using PHP?

Streaming videos on a website using PHP typically involves setting up a server-side script to handle video streaming and rendering the video player on the client-side. One common method is to use the HTML5 video tag along with PHP to serve the video content dynamically. 

<?php
// Set the video file path
$video_path = 'path/to/video.mp4';

// Get the file size
$file_size = filesize($video_path);

// Set the content type header
header('Content-Type: video/mp4');
header('Content-Length: ' . $file_size);

// Open the video file
$fp = fopen($video_path, 'rb');

// Stream the video content
while (!feof($fp)) {
    echo fread($fp, 8192);
    ob_flush();
    flush();
}

// Close the file
fclose($fp);
?>

Keywords

video streaming PHP HTML5 video player ffmpeg streaming server

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