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Am building a membership video library where user has to register and pay the monthly fee then he will be able to view the videos.
Is there any way to prevent downloading the video ?
I read a lot about VIMEO and their business service (199$/Year) prevent users from downloading the video, Vimeo refused to provide me to testing account, is it good solution to use VIMEO ?
am using asp.net technology.
While it's possible to use DRM etc to protect your videos, it ends up being a bigger hassle for you and your paying customers. No matter how hard you try, there will always be a way for people to download the videos. The harder you try to prevent that, the more difficulties you will make for legitimate customers.
Need more real world examples? See DRM in the music and computer game industries.
The best policy is to offer your content at a low enough price and make it very convenient for the user, that way piracy is impractical. You can't eliminate privacy, but you make it a bigger hassle than being a legitimate customer.
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Almost eveything is done through the database, and so this got me thinking, if I have user accounts, is there a way to create/allow certain things from the database,to be user configurable. For example, say they favorited a song, though it is done through the server, it'll be user base and only affect them.
Is there a way to allow certain things from the main database to be user database as well.
Sorta new to this.
You can definitely use firebase for music streaming ,
for basic upload you can use firebase storage, and use the download link to stream using Audio Players plugin
if you want to compress audios to different qualities you can use Firebase Functions by adding your own javascript to it.
The rest is just data manipulation and user management. You can refer the firebase documentations for more.
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Trying to understand the benefits of CDN for a live company-wide town meeting. I understand how it would help for Azure blob streaming, but what about live video? If there's nothing to cache does a CDN offer any benefit?
The whole point of a CDN is content distribution over a large geographic area. If you are expecting viewers to come from all over the world then having a CDN would enable your content to be delivered from a closer location to that user.
It could have benefits for you even locally as well depending where you are. Some areas have a few Azure regions near them so it may well provide some benefit there.
One thing for certain is that you won't see a performance hit by using a CDN. Ultimately it's down to if the Azure Streaming Endpoint could support 10,000 viewers or if you'll need to CDN back it, I've done live streaming to more than that before without a CDN before the integration existed and it was fine but I would personally still look to make use of the CDN.
You can find more details on it over in this Getting Started blog post.
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I am administering a drupal based website for a small company. We want to start offering our customers video content, streaming preferably.
What we would like to do is have a log-in on the website where after authentication the user could access the videos.
Since I am quite new to do this I don't know
A., what streaming provider to use, lot of people mentioning amazon s3
b., is it possible if using amazon s3 to have my conent be "secured" so only people with neccessary login details access it.
(There is no need for purchasing infrastructure. We hand out the login/password to the customer personally, we just want that if someone copy/pastes the link he or she would not be able to watch it)
I just need some general guidline, googling streaming hosting gives up way to much results and I couldn't find the best solution for this type of question... :(
Thank you for your help!
Check out http://wistia.com/ its one of the best service.
As for showing the video you embed them in a content type and set permission for that type for authenticated users.
This is a basic example. If you needs is more complicate then you can try making a module or use commerce module .
Cheers,
Vishal
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I have never programmed web sites. I know that I can create web sites using ASP.
So is it possible to create full web site with Silverlight? Or does Silverlight only support web forms?
Yes I suppose you could.
However, would it be the right choice for your target market?
Silverlight market share : 65%
Flash market share : 95%
Javscript - pretty much everyone
HTML - everyone
If you're tarketing the whole world, personally I wouldn't use silverlight for the whole site, just for features that required it (and even then, I'd write a HTML only backup version for people who don't have silverlight).
However, if you're writing it for a company that you know has silverlight installed and you're familiar with silverlight then go for it!
theoretically it's possible, but I don't think it's really recommended when some environments stop supporting plug-ins as java/flash/silverlight...
I suppose Html5 is the best choice for web development.
Here is a flow chart to help you in your decision
Pick your platform
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It's my second ignorant question for today, this one even more ignorant than the first.
Why wouldn't you use Wordpress to build Twitter, eBay, Amazon, or [you name any other "application" type website]?
There are some big name websites using Wordpress (supposedly) like Network Solutions. It's unclear to me how much of their website actually runs on Wordpress. Most of these sites appear to be more news or blog oriented. I'm guessing they use Wordpress to post "static" content but probably build other application features outside of wordpress. For example, do you think Network Solutions domain lookup and purchasing features are built in Wordpress?
But the real question here I guess is what type of website would you build in Wordpress, Concrete5, Joomla, or Drupal? It seems like a really stupid question but would you build a custom web app using CMS?
CMS' are really good if you require ease of use, 'simple' customisability, or (in the case of wordpress) are constantly updating. Services such as eBay or Twitter wouldn't make sense on one of these platforms as there would be a lot of proprietary code in order to make there service work and be unique - this is what CMS' fall down on. You rely on people (or yourself) to build plugins to extend the original functionality. With a ground up website, you lose all the 'flab' (i.e. excess code and functionality that you may never use) and have a much more managable system.
Behind all the sites you mention would be some kind of in-house built CMS - it just wouldn't make sense for these companies to use publically available systems.