Read MP4 files from a URL using PHP - php

Question

I am using the below code snippet to read mp4 files using PHP and play it in the video tag. This code works when I call the video as file(test.mp4) in the localhost allowing to move the seeker back and forth. But when I use Video Source as URL(http://techslides.com/demos/sample-videos/small.mp4) the video is playing but cannot move the seeker back and front.
$filename = 'http://techslides.com/demos/sample-videos/small.mp4';
$mimeType = 'video/mp4';
$ch = curl_init($filename);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, TRUE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_NOBODY, TRUE);
$data = curl_exec($ch);
$size = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_DOWNLOAD);
curl_close($ch);
// echo $size = filesize($filename);die;
$time = date('r', filemtime($filename));
$fm = #fopen($filename, 'rb');
if (!$fm)
{
header ("HTTP/1.1 505 Internal server error");
return;
}
$begin = 0;
$end = $size - 1;
if (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_RANGE']))
{
if (preg_match('/bytes=\h*(\d+)-(\d*)[\D.*]?/i', $_SERVER['HTTP_RANGE'], $matches))
{
$begin = intval($matches[1]);
if (!empty($matches[2]))
{
$end = intval($matches[2]);
}
}
}
if (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_RANGE']))
{
header('GET HTTP/1.1 206 Partial Content');
}
else
{
header('HTTP/1.1 200 OK');
}
header("Content-Type: video/mp4");
header('Accept-Ranges: bytes');
header("Content-Disposition: inline;");
header("Content-Range: bytes $begin-$end/$size");
header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary\n");
header('Cache-Control: public, must-revalidate, max-age=0');
header('Pragma: no-cache');
header('Content-Length:' . (($end - $begin) + 1));
if (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_RANGE']))
{
header("Content-Range: bytes $begin-$end/$size");
}
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) + 1));
$cur += 1024 * 16;
usleep(1000);
}

Answer 1

i have tried do that before ,
it's not working because fseek() do not support http,
the file must be 'seekable' that mean you must get file from path
check this answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/21722576/5380308