I have some FLV videos was to play on web (play in a flash player, e.g. JWPlayer). How can I protect it? I do not want someone else to download these videos! The videos was high secret! Only allow play on my website.
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there is no 100percent protection... as long as your website streams the video to a endpoint it might save the video... and reupload it whereever he wants...
things you could do: build an encrypted data-transportation-layer, implement some challange-based authentification, obfuscate your code, and hope that no-one reverse-engineers your authentication-algo/key :)
santa
2010-07-13 09:11:39
There *are* workable DRM solutions out there. No need to build this stuff from scratch.
Pekka
2010-07-13 09:59:27
May be this is the true way, But this Flash is so easy to decompiling...
huacnlee
2010-07-13 10:01:10
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Nothing you can do will 100% protect your content. (other than not making it avalable)
The best security I suppose would be to create a new (and really weird) video format and write a player for that format to use in your pages.
thomasfedb
2010-07-13 09:24:25
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One way is to use RTMP instead of HTTP download of the videos. Using RTMP, you are sure that the client never saves the file anytime on disk.
Check the Red5 project or Adobe FMS.
Chetan Vaity
2010-08-19 12:13:48
it's just a transfer protocol; the stream data still gets to the client machine.
tenfour
2010-08-19 12:18:04
The data gets to Flash plugin on the client and the plugin never writes to disk.
Chetan Vaity
2010-08-20 08:56:00