I am streaming a video online and I'd like to download it. However, there seems to be some obfuscation being done to prevent users from knowing where the content is originating from. How do I find the host and path/URL of the mp4? Here is the link.
There is the Save Video As... feature available in FireFox by right clicking on the video. It still begs the question, why doesn't the mp4 path not show up in the dev tools?
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I wanna upload my tutorial videos on a WordPress website. I was wondering if there is any solution to protect these videos from download. I'd rather if students can only use them online.
the videos will upload to a private host and using embedded links I'm gonna make them visible on my website. but I need them to be protected from the download.
is it possible?
I don't think so..
The principle of the video is to send content on the computer of those who watch it, I think there will always be a way to download the video... it will be more or less difficult, but possible.
I've looked a bit and seen a number of questions related to serving mp4, but I have not yet seen an answer to "How can I serve MP4 from Wordpress and/or Apache?" I believe it is possible as the twentyseventeen theme IIRC lets you host your own.
I am looking to host my own, if possible, after this question had an anchor linking to this blog post, and the custom generated minimized code did not work on this page on my site. Both that and the present homepage have the offered HTML solution but fail to do what is intended, namely hide related offerings like the (now retired) rel=0 parameter.
What, if any, options do I have to serve MP4 gracefully, with or without streaming, from Wordpress under Apache? I would ideally like something as graceful as under Youtube, but without related videos.
Thanks,
You definitively want to peek a look at the Plugins WordPress offers for video streaming. For example, Easy Video Player allows you to "embed both self-hosted videos or videos that are externally hosted using direct links".
It's just a one-liner. Can't get simpler than that:
[evp_embed_video url="http://example.com/wp-content/uploads/videos/myvid.mp4"]
As of functionality, it will work in Apache, since the webserver only transfers the video by HTTP and the playing occurs in the client side with HTML5. However, you must check that your hosting gives you enough bandwidth to stream content to all your visitors
By default, Wordpress provides a [video] shortcode. I'm trying to see if that will work, as a matter of using Wordpress default functionality.
We have finished up a site for a client using Wordpress as the platform. The site loads fine over cellular data, and in my office, and strangely enough when connected to the clients WIFI inside their offices.
However, as soon as I try to access the site on one of their office machines, usually connected via ethernet, images do not load. They 404 when opened in a new tab and are either a. blank when viewed in page or b. display the accessibility alt text. They do not display the broken link icon but display a rectangle. I've tried on many of their machines with the same result.
I have tried clearing cache, allowing permissions in chrome for almost everything, viewing in incognito and checking links to make sure they are correct. All links work just fine via WIFI.
This is horrible situation as it makes us look totally unprofessional, even though this issue is clearly something to do with their local server.
Their old site which was pure HTML from 2001 did not have this issue, so could it be something that we haven't added to the htaccess that we should of?
Thanks and please help!
Did you try using the browser developer tool to inspect the img tags. See if you can access the img src url directly clicking on the link. Use the browser debugger to find out the root cause. It might caching issue or broken url or mixed content issue.
I have a membership website where I sell video content but I have found out that users are downloading the content. Although I had tried Amazon with cloudfront and firewall and now moved to vimeo pro, users are always able to download the content using various extensions for chrome or firefox.
Is there a way that the website can detect such extensions and prevent the user from accessing the website? Maybe an overlay with a message would do the trick.
The website is in Wordpress, so any plugin or code would be highly appreciated.
Thanks for your help!
The simple answer is that there is really no effective way to stop people downloading your videos, if you want them to be able to actually view them.
You can authenticate users and control access that way but even this does not stop authenticated users copying and sharing the video.
The usual approach is to accept it will be downloaded and use an encryption mechanism along with a key exchange mechanism which means that only people with the proper rights can see it - this is what the common DRM systems do.
Even with this, your protection level will depend on what you need to protect - if the video is an entertainment video and you just don't want people viewing it for free then this is likely a good enough solution for you. If your video contains sensitive information, e.g. company data etc, that you don't want anyone to know at all then even this won't stop someone simply pointing a camera at the screen and getting (albeit a low quality) copy.
I am converting my site from HTTP to HTTPS. All the browser works perfectly like plays videos, shows all contents as expected but IE gives me security alert for viewing blocked content and if I don’t accept this, it doesn't play the video. I want IE also should play the videos without accepting the blocked content alert.
Couple of things I already tried:
Implemented Cross-Domain XML
Made all the Player Plugins local copy
But all this attempt didn't work. Can someone help me on this issue please? I am using JWplayer Version 6.
I would appreciate your early response!
Thanks,