bypass controller and modify headers for flv output

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bypass controller and modify headers for flv output - El Forum - 09-29-2008

[eluser]alectrash[/eluser]
I want to have on my site the url

www.mydomain.com/video/view/a-lake

which upon being requested basically does this

Code:
//query db to get filename and filesize where file id is "a-lake" (simple)

      echo 'header("Content-Type: video/x-flv")';

      echo 'header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="' . $filename . '")';

      echo 'header("Content-Length: "' . $filesize .')';

When this is working in another file I want to send the url to a jeroenwijering player like so:

Code:
...

  s1.addVariable("file", encodeURIComponent(http://www.mydomain.com/video/a-lake));

...

I am storing videos above root directory hence why i'm doing it this way.

I tried creating a controller video with function view which output the headers but they just came out as text. I looked at kaging but to no avail.

I tried looking at hooks but dont know if thats right place to look?

bypass controller and modify headers for flv output - El Forum - 09-29-2008

[eluser]GSV Sleeper Service[/eluser]
a) make sure you're not sending any other output before the headers.
b) check your webserver config to make sure it knows what to do with video/x-flv

[edit] scrap that, I didn't notice that you were using echo to set the headers!

bypass controller and modify headers for flv output - El Forum - 09-29-2008

[eluser]Dready[/eluser]
Hello,

don't use "echo" to send your headers :

Code:
header("Content-Type: video/x-flv");

header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"$filename\"");

header("Content-Length: " . $filesize .")";

bypass controller and modify headers for flv output - El Forum - 09-30-2008

[eluser]Phil Sturgeon[/eluser]
To make sure there is nothing output already, best to clear the output buffer.

Code:
while (@ob_end_clean());

    header("Content-Type: video/x-flv");

    header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"$filename\"");

    header("Content-Length: " . $filesize .")"; 

    echo $whatever;

    die();