Dynamic setup of VOD - this way?

[pootle]

I have a web server (PHP, MySQL) running on Windoze that I use to capture and manage all my images and CDs (ripped to MP3), I want to add video (mpeg) to this.

I have got as far as using VLC in VOD mode through the telnet interface on the server, and running it to a VLC client or embedded in a firefox web page, and it plays mp3 and mpeg quite happily.

I expect to have several hundred video files to play, so it is not practical to set up seprate VOD names for each file, so it looks lke the best thing to do is to use the telnet interface from the php code on the web server, and setup a new entry through the telnet interface as each request is made, and also time them out after (say) 12 hours and remove them.

Will this work?

Is there a better way to do this?