i want to play flv videos on my website. The video files are not stored on my server but i only have the url of video . The url of video donot end with .flv. So my flv player( jw player) gives error "video not found " . only if the url is ending with .flv then it plays.
How can i play the videos whose path dont end with .flv ?? I cant download it on my server and the forward becose i dont have much server space.
My site is in java/jsp with struts.
you don't have to download it, but you can still pipeline it through your server. Java's simple networking apis should let you do this. Although it seems like a bit much simply for a file extension. Are you running behind apache? If so - you can use it as a proxy to other sites (and do regex translations of the url). That might be the easiest way.
Have a look at red5 - it's an opebn source java based implementation of Flash media server. The documentation isn't great but it's quite a good product.