jcarpenter Posted March 13, 2006 Share Posted March 13, 2006 Hello,This is my first time posting but I have a problem that I can't seem to solve on my own.I have a website with video files available for members. The members click on a link and the file opens with a media player. However my bandwidth is never going to be able to keep up with my members. How do I go about making the video and music files on my site links to download instead of streaming?Thank you in advance for any information.JCarpenter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boen_robot Posted March 13, 2006 Share Posted March 13, 2006 Well, the easiest way I can think of is to archive (zip) your videos, so the users would be forced to download them first. If you want them to save raw movies, then... I don't think there's a way. It's all user's settings. At least, I think it's only that though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calvin182 Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 yes putting them in .zip files is the best method. however, if you have php set up there is a possibility you can use the header() function, here's the example they have posted on php.net for that function: <?php// We'll be outputting a PDFheader('Content-type: application/pdf');// It will be called downloaded.pdfheader('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="downloaded.pdf"');// The PDF source is in original.pdfreadfile('original.pdf');?> I havent tested it though so I do not know if it works well or not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shinji Posted May 29, 2006 Share Posted May 29, 2006 Alls i do is make a link to the image as i did here:Republic Alliance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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