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2 replies. Latest Post by streamOG on June 18, 2009.
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06-03-2009 12:09 AM |
Hi. I am trying to build a site which hosted videos (like youtube). When I actually host it, is it possible such that user can ONLY access the videos through the site, rather than typing the source URL directly? If so, how?
To illustrate, say, I have a video file "myvideo.wmv". Right now, since I am still debugging on my local computer, I can just say "source=myvideo.wmv" and play with no problem. But when I publish it, SL would be running on client browser, so I would need to change my source to something like "source=mywebsite.com/myvideo.wmv" and allow SL client to access them. But would that mean they can type in "mywebsite.com/myvideo.wmv" directly and download the file? Is there any way (such as making the client access through service) to avoid that?
Thanks~
Mog Lian...
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06-08-2009 12:14 AM |
To protect media from downloading, you could use meida stream instead of meida file, and do some authentication between silverlight and webserver. but for programmer who really want to hack, these trick may be not enough. DRM may be good choice.
DRM is dedicate to this situation, please check this article
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc838192(VS.95).aspx
streamOG
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06-18-2009 4:06 PM |
Yes this is definitely possible. Using our Silverlight DRM product [ www.silverlightdrm.com ] you can setup an authentication policy that requires the user to first visit your site and hit the link for the video instead of going to a deeplink.
Just let me know if you need help with this ok?
Christopher Levy clevy@buydrm.com http://www.buydrm.com http://www.thedrmblog.com http://www.silverlightdrm.com
Possible to limit folder access when hosting?