How do I protect my VS11.5 Plus rendered videos?

YLP · Post by **YLP** » Wed May 14, 2008 5:11 pm

I have noticed on some sites videos are protected from downloading. For instance, Real Player has a download video feature which makes it very easy for people to download videos. However, I have seen on some sites that this download feature is disabled.

How do I protect my VS11Plus videos from downloading or being downloaded and altered?

Thanks in advance.

westlight · Post by **westlight** » Wed May 14, 2008 8:12 pm

It wouldn't be a feature of VS11Plus but more the way the images are stored or accessed. If it's online there's pretty much always a way of downloading it.

On my site the videos have been converted to Flash video and installed with a viewer. Here's a link to a few samples. http://www.westlight.net/video_gallery.html

You'll see if you right click on the video it does not give you the "Save As" option, but that option is under the "File" menu. I'm working with a PC, not sure how Mac's work. Even then when you do a Save As from the File Menu it only saves the html page and the player template.

Other than Flash, which I'm sure there's a way around, I'm not sure you can protect your videos from download. I checked into this a while ago when I was thinking of adding video to my site.

Good luck!

Clevo · Post by **Clevo** » Thu May 15, 2008 12:12 am

YLP... I have never looked into this but I believe it's done with certain mark-up code used when creating the website but I also understand that there is always a work around to code blockers

Post by **Ron P.** » Thu May 15, 2008 1:22 am

If you post photos, music or video on the internet, you might as well resolve yourself to "it's up for grabs". Even with flash video, it is real easy to get. In order to play, your browser must store it in its cache. There's several utilities made just for grabbing video off the internet. Just Google for video downloader. Here's one that is made for FireFox:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2390.

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Thu May 15, 2008 1:43 am

Try Googling for "Digital Rights Management" - various television companies now place their programs on the internet so that if you miss something you can go to their website and download a copy that will work for a certain number of days and then "expires". Don't know the ins and outs or if there is any cost involved - just a pointer to a possible option.