We have a secure application on the Internet that you have to log into
to use. We want to be able to display a video from a streaming media
server via this application. The streaming media server is behind a
firewall so I want my Rails app to proxy the stream to the user so
that the stream is not available unless you log in.
I know I can use send_file to just show the video file, but I prefer
to be able to use the streaming server so that the user does not have
to wait for the file to download before it starts to play.
We have a secure application on the Internet that you have to log into
to use. We want to be able to display a video from a streaming media
server via this application. The streaming media server is behind a
firewall so I want my Rails app to proxy the stream to the user so
that the stream is not available unless you log in.
I know I can use send_file to just show the video file, but I prefer
to be able to use the streaming server so that the user does not have
to wait for the file to download before it starts to play.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Hi,
If it helps, I believe most good video formats will fake streaming in a
browser, I know flash does this ala YouTube. Also the DivX web player and
quicktime do it.
We have a secure application on the Internet that you have to log into
to use. We want to be able to display a video from a streaming media
server via this application. The streaming media server is behind a
firewall so I want my Rails app to proxy the stream to the user so
that the stream is not available unless you log in.
I know I can use send_file to just show the video file, but I prefer
to be able to use the streaming server so that the user does not have
to wait for the file to download before it starts to play.
You could do this by having the action read from a streaming
Net::HTTP get, while writing the fragments to Rails' output
buffer.
Have you also looked into adding a one-time authentication
key to URLs passed to the streaming server?
