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POJW Player read from php cannot read video dynamically
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    copied!<p>I am trying to use JWPlayer to play videos on my website. But I cannot get the video served from php dynamically as I'm getting the following error:</p> <pre>Error loading media: File could not be played</pre> <p>My current code is:</p> <pre><code>&lt;?php include('connection.php');//connect to db $id = $_GET['id'];//get video id from param $video = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM video_table WHERE id = '$id'");//video row from db $data = mysql_fetch_assoc($video); $ext = pathinfo($data['video_name'], PATHINFO_EXTENSION); $file_name = $id . "." . $ext; echo $file_name; ?&gt; &lt;div id="container1"&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt; jwplayer('container1').setup({ 'id': 'container1', 'type': '&lt;?php echo $ext ?&gt;', 'wmode': 'transparent', 'flashplayer': 'jwplayer/jwplayer.flash.swf', 'file': 'video.php', 'provider': 'video', 'width': '480', 'height': '320', }); &lt;/script&gt; &lt;/div&gt; </code></pre> <p><strong>video.php</strong></p> <pre><code>&lt;?php include('connection.php'); $id = $_GET['id']; $video = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM video_table WHERE id = '$id'"); $data = mysql_fetch_assoc($video); $ext = pathinfo($data['video_name'], PATHINFO_EXTENSION); $type = pathinfo($data['type'], PATHINFO_EXTENSION); $file_name = $id . "." . $ext;//set the file name as saved in upload directory e.g: 1.mp4 header("pragma : no-cache"); header("Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0"); header("Content-Description: File Transfer"); header("Content-Type: $type"); header("Content-Location: upload/$file_name"); header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary"); header("Content-Length: ".filesize("upload/$file_name")); readfile("upload/$file_name"); ?&gt; </code></pre> <p>However, if I changed the absolute name here <code>(upload/1.mp4) instead of (upload/$file_name)</code> it works and video is provided. How can I get the video dynamically from parameter?</p>
 

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