if i may... what exactly are you trying to do. are you simply trying to get a single movie to stream... are you trying to get a better feel for how/what streaming is? -bruce -----Original Message----- From: Graham Anderson [mailto:grahama@xxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 4:07 PM To: php Subject: how to stream a movie file with fread I am trying to stream a movie file with 'fread' this my first step in trying to dynamically encrypt the file as it is being streamed from the server do I need to fread the data in chunks? If so, how? $filename ="$path2file"; $file = fopen($filename,'r'); $fileSize = filesize($filename); $ContentType = " video/quicktime"; header ("Content-type: $ContentType"); header ("Content-length: $fileSize"); while( $filedata_temp = fread($file, $fileSize) ) echo $filedata_temp; <b>Fatal error</b>: Allowed memory size of 16777216 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 24113191 bytes) in <b>xxxxxxxx/fopenTest.php</b> on line <b>27</b><br /> BTW, I can get readfile to work just fine :) AFAIK, readfile does not parameters to alter the file contents many thanks :) g -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
