Hello, I am going to add some .flv videos to one of my websites but I dont want people to be able to download them. I am using a flash flv player and if the person looks in the page source, they can see the url to the file in the flash arguments. So I was wondering if there was a way to use .htaccess to only allow these videos to be accessed from the page with the video player. I know this wont stop people who are really serious about ripping, but its better than just handing it to them without a bit of work. Is this possible? Thanks in advance everyone ps: Im using apache on a home server Edit: Im sorry for posting in the wrong area, please move this to the apache section, thanks Argyle
you cannot really prevent people from downloading your movies, because the player itself is on their client machines and it needs access to your movie... You can only somehow protect movies if you stream them. In this case, the usual users do not have an easy way to save the movie, but if someone really wants it, there are multiple workarounds. Remember - if something is displayed on the client machine, it means that the user can get it - one way or another. Certain type of media just make it a bit harder
of course people who know what they're doing can just access the stream, but im talking about on an http level, i was pretty much just looking for a mod_rewrite code. I got it figured out now, i just water marked the videos. Thanks for the reply Take care Argyle