Block downloading .flv movies

zeeShan anSari

hi, i have an asp.net page where is a flash media player (ASPNetFlashVideo) now i want user can only watch the video and can not downloading this video specially in Maxthon explorer .Thanks

Manas Bhardwaj

AFAIK, you have no chance to prevent this straight away.

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Christian Graus

I've done this. What I did was, write a http handler that handled downloading of movies, and I modified an flv player so that only that player could play them. That way, the URL to the files was hidden, and only the player could decode them. However, even then, if you want your movies to be playable at all, you probably can't stop someone who is really determined from finding them. All you can hope to do, is a test that will satisfy a manager that they are not exposed.

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Abhishek Sur

Actually the flv player is downloaded totally to the client, and the video is buffered to it. There are few browser plugins that can capture the bufferred stream and write to a file. I think there is no way to stop this from the server side, and buffering is done in the client. What you can do to secure, is to design the player a better way.

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