mp4 from PHP - Not playing in HTML5 Video tag

Question

I am using the video tag to play videos.

I using php files for the playback like this:

    <video id="playvideo" preload="auto" width="845" height="395" 
    poster="http://video-js.zencoder.com/oceans-clip.png">

    <source src="../getvideo_webm.php" type='video/webm' />
    <source src="../getvideo_mp4.php" type='video/mp4'/>
    <source src="../getvideo_ogv.php" type='video/ogg' />

    </video>

All .php files are playing fine when i check them directly in the brower. But the above setup with all .php as source files will not play. If i give a straight .mp4 source it will play fine.

The getvideo_mp4.php looks like this:

 $path = 'oceans-clip.mp4';
 if (file_exists($path))
 {
 $size=filesize($path);
 $fm=@fopen($path,'rb');
 if(!$fm) {
 // You can also redirect here
 header ("HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found");
 die();
 }
 $begin=0;
 $end=$size;
 if(isset($_SERVER['HTTP_RANGE'])) {
 if(preg_match('/bytes=\h*(\d+)-(\d*)[\D.*]?/i',   
 $_SERVER['HTTP_RANGE'],$matches)){
 $begin=intval($matches[0]);
 if(!empty($matches[1])) {
 $end=intval($matches[1]);
 }
 }
 }
 if($begin>0||$end<$size)
 header('HTTP/1.0 206 Partial Content');
 else
 header('HTTP/1.0 200 OK');
 header("Content-Type: video/mp4");
 header('Accept-Ranges: bytes');
 header('Content-Length:'.($end-$begin));
 header("Content-Disposition: inline;");
 header("Content-Range: bytes $begin-$end/$size");
 header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary\n");
 header('Connection: close');
 $cur=$begin;
 fseek($fm,$begin,0);
 while(!feof($fm)&&$cur<$end&&(connection_status()==0))
 { print fread($fm,min(1024*16,$end-$cur));
 $cur+=1024*16;
 usleep(1000);
 }
 die();
 }

So what am i doing wrong ?

NOW... it seems like it IS WORKING with the above code.. :-/ — Niels

Niels Niels · Accepted Answer · 2013-05-24T10:44:12

The above code is working. After i changed the src url for .php files, it did actually work. Now it plays in moz, ie, chrome with only php files as sources in the video tag.

mp4 from PHP - Not playing in HTML5 Video tag

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