USING VLC FOR VIDEO ON DEMAND IN PHP

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THis is I guess 2 seperate questions , first I wan't to be able to use VLAN with PHP to create A VIDEO on demand solution for my website visitors. I want to be able to script it so IT will work automatically and work on any site visitor without me having to do anything. It also needs to be dynamic, IN that the files are stored in a files directory and the names and paths are stored in a MYSQL database. The user will do a search for certain key words or categories, and then the PHP script will select the appropriate video based on what the user typed.

I want to be able to embed the videos into and HTML interface and when the user clicks the appropriate video A popup window will display and stream the video to whatever the users default media player is. Wheather that be Windows Media Player or some MAC equivalant. I also need to to work accrosss browsers and platforms.


Does anyone know the coding on how this would work. And can I have the video default to the users video player regardless on what that player is. Or does all of them have to be played with the VLC player. If anyone can help me with the coding that would be much appreciated. P.S. I am a fairly new programer and I only know the basics of PHP and don't really understand the System code or Java. SO if you could please comment what the code does I would be so gratefull.

Thanks