To view a video, you do have to download it. But you don't have to download all of it at once. If a user did have to download the whole video and you still wanted to protect it, you'd want to look into some kind of DRM (digital rights management) solution probably. YouTube and similar streaming sites use a Flash video player that streams the video so the user only has a bit of the video at a time in memory. Technically a user could still use a program to record what they're viewing, but it's a lot tricker than just grabbing a video out of their browser's cache folder. Divx also has a newish streaming solution that I *think* supports some form of security. Don't quote me on that though. I believe it has a "download" option built into it. Not sure if you can disable it. More info here: http://www.divx.com/divx/webplayer/ All in all, most of the solutions you're going to find are not PHP oriented. You might use PHP to handle the listing and selection of the videos, but not so much the streaming and security aspects. Hopefully this has given you some places to start looking for a real solution. Good luck! -TG = = = Original message = = = At 11:08 AM -0500 12/19/06, John Messam wrote: >How do I display video on my php page and prevent the video from being >downloaded. This is a common misconception. If a user see's anything on (actually from) your web page then that means that the user's browser has already downloaded it. If this wasn't true, then how can his browser display it? It's similar to saying "I want to broadcast my radio signal and I want you to listen to it, but I don't want you to receive it." Now, a solution would be if you developed a viewer that the user could download and use to view *your* keyed video images that would only work depending upon your distribution of *your* keys. You might look to Flash for that -- if I had to do it, that's where I would start. tedd -- ------- http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php ___________________________________________________________ Sent by ePrompter, the premier email notification software. Free download at http://www.ePrompter.com. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
