"Blackhawk" wrote:
Would putting a shortcut link to the download (like when using the videos from archive.org) work with Vimeo?
The answer is NO.
The reason is unlike archive.org, Vimeo and places alike have extra coded added into the link, which alllows the link to stay good for a very limited amount of time, usually between 4 hours and 2 days and/or limited to the users ip address.
So, you would have to either
A) Keep updating the stored links or
B) write a script that on user click retrieves a new code.
I use a simple php script that does the second. PHP because it is readily available on pretty much all hosting servers both commercially and on local machines.
Here is a sample php script which GETS the url link via a header("Location: URL")
<?php
$link = file_get_contents("type URL here");
preg_match_all(
'/(http.*.m3u8)/', //this tells it to find and grab the m3u8 link
$link,
$otherthings, // will contain the article data
PREG_SET_ORDER // formats data into an array of posts
);
foreach ($otherthings as $otherthing) {
$link = $otherthing[1];
// clear out the output buffer
while (ob_get_status())
{
ob_end_clean();
}
// no redirect opens link
header("location: $link");
}
?>
