The purpose of this document is to create a web streaming using apache,php and flowplayer. Streaming is not a rocket science just add flowplayer in your code and enjoy .flv based video streaming server.

Required packages

Mysql (User choice if you waana use it ok go with mysql or you can do streaming without mysql it is totally depand upon your requirment)

  • Apache
  • flowplayer
  • php-5
[root@fileserver ~]# rpm -qa |grep mysql  
libdbi-dbd-mysql-0.8.1a-1.2.2  
mysql-5.0.22-2.1  
mysql-bench-5.0.22-2.1  
pam_mysql-0.7-0.4.rc1  
mysql-devel-5.0.22-2.1  
mod_auth_mysql-3.0.0-3.1  
mysql-server-5.0.22-2.1  
mysql-connector-odbc-3.51.12-2.2  
php-mysql-5.1.6-5.el5  

[root@fileserver ~]# rpm -qa |grep http  
jakarta-commons-httpclient-3.0-7jpp.1  
httpd-2.2.3-6.el5.centos.1  
system-config-httpd-1.3.3.1-1.el5  
httpd-manual-2.2.3-6.el5.centos.1  

[root@fileserver ~]# rpm -qa |grep php  
php-cli-5.1.6-5.el5  
php-5.1.6-5.el5  
php-mysql-5.1.6-5.el5

Download flowplayer opensource version it is free of coast for comercial use under GPL.

[root@fileserver ~]# wget <http://releases.flowplayer.org/flowplayer/flowplayer-3.2.0.zip>  
root@fileserver ~]# unzip flowplayer-3.2.0.zip  
Archive:  flowplayer-3.2.0.zip  

[root@fileserver flowplayer]# ls  
example  flowplayer-3.2.0.swf  flowplayer.controls-3.2.0.swf  LICENSE.txt  README.txt

ok we got the player now first configure mysql

[root@fileserver flowplayer]# /etc/init.d/mysqld start  
  
[root@fileserver flowplayer]# mysql -u root -p  
Enter password:  
  
mysql> create database videos;  
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.13 sec)  
  
mysql> GRANT CREATE,  SELECT, INSERT, DELETE ON videos .* TO asim@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'redhat';  
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.06 sec)  
mysql> use videos;  
Database changed  
mysql> CREATE TABLE `video` (  
->   `video_id` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,  
->   `video_tag` text NOT NULL,  
->   `uploaddate` datetime NOT NULL default '0000-00-00 00:00:00',  
->   `hits` text NOT NULL,  
->   `activestatus` varchar(10) NOT NULL default '',  
->   `video_name` varchar(200) NOT NULL default '',  
->   `video_title` text NOT NULL,  
->   PRIMARY KEY  (`video_id`)  
-> ) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 AUTO_INCREMENT=5 ;  
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.10 sec)  
  
mysql> INSERT INTO `video` VALUES (1, 'Paranormal Activities', '2010-04-12 00:00:00', '4', '1', '1.flv', 'Great Movie with low budget');  
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.10 sec)  
mysql> INSERT INTO `video` VALUES (2, 'Clash of Titans', '2010-04-13 00:00:00', '15', '1', '2.flv', 'Average Movie');  
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.01 sec)

Now After Database create index page in /var/www/html/stream

[root@fileserver ~]# cd /var/www/html/stream/

create folder js or as per your code

[root@fileserver stream]# mkdir js

Now copy flowplayer file into js folder or as per your code path

[root@fileserver stream]# cp /root/flowplayer/flowplayer-3.2.0.swf /root/flowplayer/example/flowplayer-3.2.0.min.js js/

My index.php is display below create your own. Add the following flowplayer lines on you index

[root@fileserver stream]# cat index.php

flowplayer(“player”, “js/flowplayer-3.2.0.swf”);

Also create anonther folder video or as per your code.

[root@fileserver stream]# mkdir video

copy all videos into video folder.


Restart mysqld & httpd  
  
[root@fileserver stream]# service mysqld restart  
Stopping MySQL:                                            [  OK  ]  
Starting MySQL:                                            [  OK  ]  
[root@fileserver stream]# service httpd restart  
Stopping httpd:                                            [  OK  ]  
Starting httpd:                                            [  OK  ]

now open browser and type

http://192.168.1.249/stream/index.php
Thanks to Allah. It is working
CHEERS 🙂