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Have you got a media player in the mix? It will probably work better in desktop browsers. I'm not sure so much about iOS, But I don't think any browser has a video encoder in place to handle this type of media. So your browser is just seeing the file and handles it by downloading it for you. So a player will probably be your best bet.

Take a look at jPlayer: http://jplayer.org/

Its fully customizable and will deal with streaming your file.

Another option, which might be better for you depending on the project is to use a CDN to deliver the videos. You'll still need a player to handle the video. But it will save your server a crap load. I'm sure you are aware that its pretty intensive to stream videos. There are a few out there that specialise in video. We've used one in the past - Can't remember the company of the top of my head.

Hope it helps.

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Got this working with angular (videogular). This class I found (author and link in class comments) works for partial content and seeking (ranges) when streaming.

Just place the VideoStream.php class below in app/helpers, and call it from your controller function as follows :

public function streamVideo() {
  $video_path = 'somedirectory/somefile.mp4';
  $stream = new VideoStream($video_path);
  $stream->start(); 
}

The stream helper class (VideoStream.php)

<?php
/**
 *  * Description of VideoStream
 *   *
 *    * @author Rana
 *     * @link http://codesamplez.com/programming/php-html5-video-streaming-t...
 *      */
class VideoStream
{
	private $path = "";
	private $stream = "";
	private $buffer = 102400;
	private $start  = -1;
	private $end    = -1;
	private $size   = 0;

	function __construct($filePath) 
	{
		$this->path = $filePath;
	}

	/**
	 *      * Open stream
	 *           */
	private function open()
	{
		if (!($this->stream = fopen($this->path, 'rb'))) {
			die('Could not open stream for reading');
		}

	}

	/**
	 *      * Set proper header to serve the video content
	 *           */
	private function setHeader()
	{
		ob_get_clean();
		header("Content-Type: video/mp4");
		header("Cache-Control: max-age=2592000, public");
		header("Expires: ".gmdate('D, d M Y H:i:s', time()+2592000) . ' GMT');
		header("Last-Modified: ".gmdate('D, d M Y H:i:s', @filemtime($this->path)) . ' GMT' );
		$this->start = 0;
		$this->size  = filesize($this->path);
		$this->end   = $this->size - 1;
		header("Accept-Ranges: 0-".$this->end);

		if (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_RANGE'])) {

			$c_start = $this->start;
			$c_end = $this->end;

			list(, $range) = explode('=', $_SERVER['HTTP_RANGE'], 2);
			if (strpos($range, ',') !== false) {
				header('HTTP/1.1 416 Requested Range Not Satisfiable');
				header("Content-Range: bytes $this->start-$this->end/$this->size");
				exit;
			}
			if ($range == '-') {
				$c_start = $this->size - substr($range, 1);
			}else{
				$range = explode('-', $range);
				$c_start = $range[0];

				$c_end = (isset($range[1]) && is_numeric($range[1])) ? $range[1] : $c_end;
			}
			$c_end = ($c_end > $this->end) ? $this->end : $c_end;
			if ($c_start > $c_end || $c_start > $this->size - 1 || $c_end >= $this->size) {
				header('HTTP/1.1 416 Requested Range Not Satisfiable');
				header("Content-Range: bytes $this->start-$this->end/$this->size");
				exit;
			}
			$this->start = $c_start;
			$this->end = $c_end;
			$length = $this->end - $this->start + 1;
			fseek($this->stream, $this->start);
			header('HTTP/1.1 206 Partial Content');
			header("Content-Length: ".$length);
			header("Content-Range: bytes $this->start-$this->end/".$this->size);
		}
		else
		{
			header("Content-Length: ".$this->size);
		}  

	}

	/**
	 *      * close curretly opened stream
	 *           */
	private function end()
	{
		fclose($this->stream);
		exit;
	}

	/**
	 *      * perform the streaming of calculated range
	 *           */
	private function stream()
	{
		$i = $this->start;
		set_time_limit(0);
		while(!feof($this->stream) && $i <= $this->end) {
			$bytesToRead = $this->buffer;
			if(($i+$bytesToRead) > $this->end) {
				$bytesToRead = $this->end - $i + 1;
			}
			$data = fread($this->stream, $bytesToRead);
			echo $data;
			flush();
			$i += $bytesToRead;
		}
	}

	/**
	 *      * Start streaming video content
	 *           */
	function start()
	{
		$this->open();
		$this->setHeader();
		$this->stream();
		$this->end();
	}
}
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Thanks @jolleyjoe - this got my videos working in Safari.

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HI @jolleyjoe, @jvv and all :). Please help sigh! How is the videogular script written to display list of videos

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