[ Thanks to Falko
Timme for this link. ]
“This article shows how you can build your own video
community using lighttpd with its mod_flv_streaming module (for
streaming .flv videos, the format used by most major video
communities such as YouTube) and its mod_secdownload module (for
preventing hotlinking of the videos) on Debian Lenny. I will use
FlowPlayer as the video player, a free Flash video player with
support for lighttpd’s mod_flv_streaming module. I will also show
how you can encode videos (.mp4 .mov .mpg .3gp .mpeg .wmv .avi) to
the FLV format supported by Adobe Flash.“This document comes without warranty of any kind! I want to say
that this is not the only way of setting up such a system. There
are many ways of achieving this goal but this is the way I take. I
do not issue any guarantee that this will work for you!“1 Preliminary Note
“In this tutorial I use the hostname server1.example.com with
the IP address 192.168.0.100. These settings might differ for you,
so you have to replace them where appropriate.“We need a lighttpd installation with PHP support, as shown in
this tutorial: Installing Lighttpd With PHP5 And MySQL Support On
Debian Lenny. I won’t cover this here, so please refer to this
tutorial if you haven’t already set up lighttpd with PHP
support.”