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Asked: 2026-05-11T03:34:14+00:00

Sorry if the question is confused, as I’m confused myself. I’m working around these

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Sorry if the question is confused, as I’m confused myself. I’m working around these requirements:

  1. I’m building a public website where I need to display video.
  2. I need to control what the player looks like
  3. I’m the sole publisher of the video, meaning it can’t be on YouTube for example
  4. I need as much protection as possible in terms of protecting the content from being downloaded

So, I’ve read around StackOverflow and the web, and found lots of suggestions, like numerous flash players, Streaming servers, DRM protocols, services like Panda etc etc.

The problem is I don’t understand how everything fits together.

For example, what makes my video content secure? Is it the player on the client? is it the server that hosts the content? is it the streaming process? who hosts the streaming servers and what difference does this make?

Bearing in mind this is otherwise a very simple site, and is not a business venture.

if you were working around my requirements, what would you do? Could you explain step by step at a high level?

EDIT: Just based on a couple of answers, I’m not saying no one can ever download my content. And I realize this kind of thing is expensive.

I’m just asking, if you had my requirements, what would you do? And could you explain it to me so i understand?

thanks again

Edit: Thanks again for all the feedback, I can’t vote anyone up as I’m a new user, but your answers have been very helpful.

The one thing I will say, is that my only request was to attempt security, that is ‘make it difficult’ for most users…that is common in software security.

Some of the suggestions have been just to not even try.

My question was really based around the fact that I know nothing about video deployment on the web, apart form the basic embedded swf flv combo.

Anyway, your info has been very useful though. I’ll try a simple ‘real’ streaming service (as opposed to HTTP streaming).

Any other recommendations would be awesome

cheers

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  1. Mostly video streaming sites like Hulu achieve a kind of poor-man’s security by using RTMP to transfer the video data. You would need special server software to serve video via RTMP, for example Adobe Flash Media Server or WebORB.

    RTMP is a proprietary protocol, so this is a case of security through obscurity; it’s non-trivial to download a copy of the video (you can’t just grab the file from a URL), but there are programs out there that are capable intercepting the stream and keeping a copy.

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