loading a flash video from outside of root?

[cafrow]

Hi there, I just realized that Flash is probebly client side and my whole idea of having a flash video outside of my HTTP root is probebly not going to work. Let me ask the question here and see if anyone is able to help me.

I want to place some flash videos outside of my HTTPdocs (linux) or WWWROOT (windows) folder so that my scripts can call the file BUT users cannot browse directly to the video, I know they can record the stream but just for the sake of my boss not yelling at me I want to be able to store the file outside of the root. I have tried this a few different ways but cannot get it to work, I can get PHP to reconize it as a file using is_file() but cannot get the flash movie to load.

THanks for any help.

[mtgentry]

Motion Theory (http://www.motiontheory.com) does this on their website with Quicktime movies. Haven't seen it done with .flv files though.

Hope your boss stops yellin' :)

[cafrow]

thanks for that reply, I know its possible with other formats but with flash I am thinking that it cannot be done, I will wait it out and hope that someone else has a good solid anwser for me.

[schizo]

Unless you are playing the FLV's locally, they must be placed within a web accessable directory.