Any help with this is GREATLY appreciated...

I have done a website for a band that has been together for 25 years. We have video for over 60 of their concerts and we would like to be able to stream them on the website. This is the catch... They want to be able to say "Go to our website on Friday at 8pm watch our concert from 1988" and have like a schedule so the video will start playing at 8:00, if people go to the site at 8:15, they miss the first 15 minutes of it. I hope that makes sense.

Is there anything like this out there?

One thing you can do is stream the video starting at 8:00 on a live streaming website like justin.tv, ustream.tv, etc. and embed the player's code on your site. That will achieve what you are trying to do. Downside is it's not a customized solution or automated, but you will save on bandwidth costs from letting another site do the streaming

Yeah it's totally possible, what you need to do (I going to assume your using flash here) is set up the file to skip to the part of the video you want to start with. For example

PHP Code:

<?php
$startAt = $currentTime - $startTime; // Output could be 90 (Meaning 90 seconds)
?>
<!-- video code here-->

Originally Posted by rogem002

Yeah it's totally possible, what you need to do (I going to assume your using flash here) is set up the file to skip to the part of the video you want to start with. For example

PHP Code:

<?php
$startAt = $currentTime - $startTime; // Output could be 90 (Meaning 90 seconds)
?>
<!-- video code here-->

Wow! You guys constantly impress me here. Currently the site I am working on is a Joomla site. I was hoping at first that there was a Joomla component or module that would do this for me. A extension where I could put the location of the flv files I want to play and the times I want them to play. Unfortunately I have found nothing like that. Once I realized that route wouldn't work, I thought I could possibly find a php script that would do the same thing and I could just use Joomla's wrapper feature to incorporate it in to the site...

Your idea is really good but unfortunately I am not good enough with Flash to pull it off. I have the videos converted to flv files but don't have the skills to do what you suggested.

Great Idea!

what you want to do is combine what rogem has with http://flowplayer.org/

flowplayer is easily customizable so using the onStart Event plugging in the PHP var will work perfectly

http://flowplayer.org/documentation/events/clip.html

the thing is you won't need much flash or javascript experience

Does a script like this exist -I think that there is
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Originally Posted by aaricwon

Wow! You guys constantly impress me here. Currently the site I am working on is a Joomla site. I was hoping at first that there was a Joomla component or module that would do this for me. A extension where I could put the location of the flv files I want to play and the times I want them to play. Unfortunately I have found nothing like that. Once I realized that route wouldn't work, I thought I could possibly find a php script that would do the same thing and I could just use Joomla's wrapper feature to incorporate it in to the site...

Your idea is really good but unfortunately I am not good enough with Flash to pull it off. I have the videos converted to flv files but don't have the skills to do what you suggested.

Great Idea!

Would anyone want to do a little teaching? I'd LOVE to learn how to do this.

Actually, the correct definition of what you're looking for is called multicasting.The purpose of multicasting is to have one outbound stream serving multiple clients, so as to save on bandwidth costs when serving scheduled programming.

To multicast, you'll need Fash Media Server, or Quicktime Server, or some other RTP, RTSP, or RTMP protocol server (you could go Red5 for a free FMS compatible server).

Or, you can simulate multicasting as outlined above, but with none of the bandwidth constraints, and of course, if a user's PC clock is incorrectly set, well... too bad for them.

Originally Posted by aaricwon

Would anyone want to do a little teaching? I'd LOVE to learn how to do this.

I'm not sure if you by passed my post here:

Originally Posted by orionoreo

what you want to do is combine what rogem has with http://flowplayer.org/

flowplayer is easily customizable so using the onStart Event plugging in the PHP var will work perfectly

http://flowplayer.org/documentation/events/clip.html

the thing is you won't need much flash or javascript experience

but this will be the best and most elegant implementation. flowplayer supports HTML 5 too..


basically store your posting of the FLV file, set the time to start and script it to start a certain time passed your set time. If the time if passed the length of the clip either start from beginning or stop it in total.

oh and the flowplayer requires 0 flash experiences