tracking file requests

[project3]

I want to track the number of requests that a file gets downloaded and viewed.

What I have is mp4 files on the server and they could either get played in
flash player or downloaded via mobile or whatever.

I need to see how many times that files gets downloaded or viewed. Since its
in a php page I am able to track the number of views. But I want to able to track
the direct downloads.

I was thinking something along the lines of htaccess redirect to php then to file.

But that would mess up the player from playing the file I would think. I am not
sure how to make that happen with the htaccess either though.

Any help would be so greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance!

[project3]

Ok so the player works ok with just putting direct.php in the play link and
then putting a forward to the file in the direct.php page it works.

So now if I can figure out the .htaccess file

I think if the rule would be when this.mp4 gets called redirect to
direct.php? and then i want to get the current folder and current file
so direct.php?id1=folder&id2=this.mp4

then i could count that d/l and put in db and forward to the original mp4.file.