Re: Looping A Playlist With Files And Link REMOTELY Hosted

On Mon, 22 May 2006 12:01:41 -0600, Pat Cook <pchamster@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Hi everyone:

Thank you for taking the time to read this.

I have a video page that I plan to use to link to videos (or a video
playlist) that are either mine entirely or I have permission to link to
in the embedded viewer on my website.

So far so good...

The thing is I don't want to be a bandwidth leecher all the time by
doing this. I'd like to be able to host the videos on my own. The


So at this point, you will download the videos then upload them to
your web server - is that the plan ? Sound fair enough to me, if you
have permission agreed in advance. You might want to credit the
authors in some way, perhaps by embedding copyright text into the
files or into a playlist.


problem with this is due to bandwidth constraints (I only have
residential cable service and this is all being done for a hobby of
mine), I'm gonna have to resort to using the bandwidth of my web host.

Actually, Dreamhosts do pretty cheap web hosting with massive amounts
of storage (several hundred MB for low double figures) *and* you can
use their Darwin streaming server to punt out streamed, seekable
quicktime video. Just a thought if you're limited for $$ and space.


Is it possible to loop a playlist (i.e. it DOES NOT start from the
beginning when a visitor logs onto the page) on a web server? If so,


Give me an example and I'll give you one.
Here's one which does loop, but from the beginning :

<asx version="3.0">
<repeat>
<entry>
<ref href="http://server/track1.wmv"; />
</entry>
<entry>
<ref href="http://server/track2.wmv"; />
</entry>
</repeat>
</asx>

I'm not sure what you're asking other than that - clue me in.


what do I change (other than the source file link, which will no doubt
be either an ASX or M3U file following the HTTP protocol rather than the
MMS protocol) in the HTML code of the viewer so that it does this?


OK you lost me know I'm not sure what you're getting at - do you know
why you mentioned all those acronyms, or are they just stuff you heard
somewhere ? How do they relate to the problem you're describing ?

I think it would be helpful if you could provide a step by step list
of what actions should happen, from when a visitor first arrives at
your website, up to the last frame of video or note of audio they
experience.


I know that all the files would have to be uploaded and the link file
would have to have the entire list, complete with actual URL, and it too
will have to be uploaded. This is no problem at all. I just need to
know what to change in the code for the embedded viewer (Since I do not

In the page below, both the filename and src param/attributes ought to
point to somewhere on your web server hosting the ASX file eg
http://www.freewebtown.com/myplaylist.asx

However it's important to ensure with your web host that your web
server sends the correct content-type for the ASX file, which is
video/x-ms-asf

If you are unable to discover this or negotiate it with your web host,
you can send headers (followed by the text content of the ASX file)
from scripting languages such as PHP or ASP.

Your host is using Apache2 and provides SSL, so there's a good chance
it supports PHP (though it may be mutually exclusive to using
frontpage extensions, I'm not sure it's something I've ever tried)

Server: Apache/2.0.53 (Fedora) DAV/2 FrontPage/5.0.2.2634
mod_ssl/2.0.53 OpenSSL/0.9.7a

In fact the home page already sports a PHP banner, and a .php
extension (though I hated the popups enough not to stay long)

own all the videos, but rather have permission to link to, I *DO NOT*
plan to offer a link to spawn the external viewer on the page and I may
also run it through an HTML guard program to disable the right click
option too).

VIDEO PAGE IN QUESTION - http://www.freewebtown.com/kb0oxd/webcam2.html

One thing I did notice which may interfere with the player loading
(though it may work OK too) is the codebase and pluginspage
declarations have extra space between the slashes (inside the quote
marks). You probably want to remove that for completeness.

Assuming the mms URL is active, it probably will work OK as-is.

HTH
Cheers - Neil
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Digital Media MVP : 2004-2006
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/mvpfaqs
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