I have been tinkering with using perl or php to serve files to my TIVO.

When I use perl the streamed music file skips badly, and no matter how I alter the amount read before it prints I still get really bad skipping. But if I use explorer to download the same file thru the script I get hugh kbps. Here is a portion of my script:

This is a file that was opened with IO:File 
elsif( ref $data eq 'IO::File' ) {
    my $block;
    while( $data->read($block, 1024) ) {
    print $block;
}

# Close file
undef $data;

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So I went and tried a php version that some else had created and it worked perfectly. The php version used fopen and fpassthru.

My question is, I don't think this is a speed problem with perl since I can download the file thru the script superfast. But WHY IS PHP WORKING SO MUCH BETTER AT THIS TASK? And is there a better perl method to read and send the file?

Thanks for your help,

Kevin

2004-11-25 Janitored by Arunbear - added code tags, as per Monastery guidelines

In reply to Perl vs. PHP in streaming a file by krkeegan

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