Flash Streaming Payment

I have an application where I need to be able to serve flash
video to the client. But in this case I need either the server
streaming the flash, or the client receiving the flash to stop
playing when a user runs out of viewing minutes. And obviosly take
away viewing minutes (kept track of in a SQL database) as he views
the videos.
I'm not looking for some sort of completely integrated
package with an admin, billing modules, etc. I'm just interested in
the streaming of the flash video by the server and receiving by the
client, and then being able to control how much is viewed per
minute.
Essentially I need to stream training video to a client
remotely, and the user pays for this video per minute of use. I'm
building a CF application to handle this but can't seem to find an
answer to how to bill the user per minute as he watches the video.
Any pointers or ideas are appreciated!

well you can track time in flash, but i wouldnt do it cause
flash tracks time locally off the users machine, and most people
can screw with the clock, or dont have it set correctly etc. a
world of problems trust me.
track the time useing server side code, CF or PHP whatever
you like. then you can send the "time" as a varialbe to flash and
just have a simple if statement checking to see if the time is up,
and use the variable as a "start time" and track in flash from
there, like when the video starts flash gets the current time from
CF and starts counting, if the user stops the video, flash pauses
the timeing.
then when done flash can send out the elapsed time to CF do a
calculation and drop it into the DB.
as for the flash video, it is really very simple.
here is a link to a great tutorial >
http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx2004/video.htm
cheers
corey

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