This is my code I am wondering how I can protect the location of the flv?

<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="FLVPlayer_Progressive.swf?MM_ComponentVersion=1&skinName=Halo_Skin_3&streamName=http://www.technologyforever.com/secretfile.flv&autoPlay=true&autoRewind=true&scale=noscale&quality=high" 
   width="400" height="300">
   <param name="movie" value="FLVPlayer_Progressive.swf?MM_ComponentVersion=1&skinName=Halo_Skin_3&streamName=http://www.technologyforever.com/secretfile.flv&autoPlay=true&autoRewind=true&scale=noscale&quality=high" />
   <img src="noflash.gif" width="320" height="100" alt="" />
</object>

You could put the file in a database (the entire file in binary format), then use php to generate the file dynamically.

Jamie

Wait if I do that wouldn't that just generate the file location?

Um....no

The file would be in the database, you could then use php to pull the file (because php is a nice language you can perform authority checks and other such things before generating the video)

Jamie

Okay could you please give me an example of how this is done?

Just a moment, let me get some code together for this.

I'm gonna need a little more time on this

Gonna have to wait till morning...I'm off to bed.

I also want to make it possible to embed these videos in other sites but I don't know how to make the embed simpiler so that it is as easy as youtube has theirs

gah, I this code's confusing me. Someone else please help him.

I can't get it to work like youtube >.<

couldnt you just have:

PHP Code:

$id=$_GET['id'];
switch($id)
{
case 'video_id_5622':
header('Content-Type: video/x-flv');
readfile('/home/username/securefolder/video.flv');
break;
 
case 'video_id_546545':
header('Content-Type: video/x-flv');
readfile('/home/username/securefolder/video2.flv');
break;
 
} 


or soemthing like that but maybe done via database would be better.

and if u store them in a folder before the public_html they can only be accessed via PHP

this should keep the source from public view and (i think)

you could just use the url for the video as video.php?id=video_id_659626g

and it should then read the .flv into the php and work as if you linking directly to the .flv

i think in theory this should work.

and if its differant video types then just do a quick google for "content-type video format

That's exatly what I was looking for...and you could just have it get the cases from a MySQL database.

If you need the code for that, I can get that for you.

yurp!

i think this should be what you need

PHP Code:

# DB CONNECT
# DB SELECT
 
$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM videos");
 
$id= $_GET['id'];
switch($id) 
{
 
while($row=mysql_fetch_array($result))
{
 
case '{$row['id']}':
 
header('Content-Type: video/x-flv');
readfile($row['video_path']);
break;
}
 
}
?> 


i think that should do it

TALKUPATION IS APPRIECIATED!!!

Isit really necessary to protect your files so much? I don't think you're going to need security as hard as this to protect a few files / bandwidth

He said he wanted people to be able to embed them...he's not trying to save bandwidth.

I really have no idea what he's trying to achieve here. People can still access the files on a seperate server, and they can still save the swfs...

lets just play along.. and hopefully i can get some TP

I sure could use some

I wouldn't store the files in a database myself; they're able to store long binary data, but not terribly efficient at it, and pulling the movies out to serve is going to flood the db engine's cache.

You might want to consider url rewriting instead, sending the person to a page that does an authorization check and then serves up the data from a file. So long as the redirection is server-side, the client won't know the true location of the file, just what they requrested and what the status code was.

Saving the swf or mov files is another point you need to consider. You can stream them, but I don't know how effective this is ... I've never had to do it.

Originally Posted by ForrestCroce

I wouldn't store the files in a database myself; they're able to store long binary data, but not terribly efficient at it, and pulling the movies out to serve is going to flood the db engine's cache.

You might want to consider url rewriting instead, sending the person to a page that does an authorization check and then serves up the data from a file. So long as the redirection is server-side, the client won't know the true location of the file, just what they requrested and what the status code was.

Saving the swf or mov files is another point you need to consider. You can stream them, but I don't know how effective this is ... I've never had to do it.

But what's the point of the client not knowing what the location of the file is? The only logical thing is that he doesn't want people to steal the games to put them on their own server. As far as I know, there really isn't a way to do that.

I think you just have to look at it youtube has this.

and while probally 95% of their users dont know you can download the videos from youtube/google to their PC the other 5% do..

btw.. im one of the 5% i love being a minority (which is a really good song by Green day )

and if you would like to know i happen to have a script which i came accross to download videos off you tube

http://dansgalaxy.co.uk/youtube_download

it just get sthe source of the flv and shows a link.


BUT i dont think if you do what i said where they are actually stored below he public_html/WWW fodler is they should be able to downlaod them like that.

so anyway give the script a try

Yeah YouTube has this same kind of script :P

But if you know how to do it, it's not that hard to download the FLV file