Stream out file in PHP

I'm making an application where members can stream out videos (as FLVs) a set number of times.

I know in ASP you can stream files out as I've done it. When I try it in PHP, the entire film has to download before the Flash applet starts playing. Due to the size of the videos this is hardly ideal.

This worked when I was testing the FLV directly (not going through PHP, just HTTP GETting it off the server).

Here's the important part of my code:

<?
session_start();
ob_start();

header("Content-Type: video/x-flv");
header("Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate");
header("Expires: Mon, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT");

$fh = fopen(realpath("filename.flv"), "rb");
fseek($fh, 0);
while (!feof($fh)) {
      print (fread($fh, 500));
      ob_flush();
}
fclose($fh);
?>

Either that or the flash player cannot understand what the data means, like it can via direct download. I don't know how to tell the difference.Start Free Trial