Re: [PHP] Video question

2006-12-20 Thread Philipp Schwarz
You can put the video into a flash file and start playing the video with Javascript. If someone downloads the video, he will see a blank page, because of the missing start command from Javascript. Problem: If someone downloads the compleate page, he can watch the video. You can solve this by u

Re: [PHP] Video question

2006-12-19 Thread Casey Chu
Maybe you could try some complicated file splitting thing? Like [dynamically] split the video into 10 pieces and send them in a jumbled mess, and decode them using something like flash? On 12/19/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: To view a video, you do have to download it. But yo

Re: [PHP] Video question

2006-12-19 Thread tg-php
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 streamin

Re: [PHP] Video question

2006-12-19 Thread tedd
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 th

RE: [PHP] Video question

2006-12-19 Thread bruce
ECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 9:27 AM To: John Messam Cc: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] Video question John Messam wrote: > How do I display video on my php page and prevent the video from being > downloaded. > You'll need to be more specific than this. What v

Re: [PHP] Video question

2006-12-19 Thread IG
John Messam wrote: How do I display video on my php page and prevent the video from being downloaded. You'll need to be more specific than this. What video format are you using? The only way to stop it from being downloaded is by streaming the video, and even then it is possible if you have

Re: [PHP] Video question

2006-12-19 Thread Jochem Maas
John Messam wrote: > How do I display video on my php page and prevent the video from being > downloaded. if you want to display something/anything it needs to be downloaded to the client (browser) ... this is rather fundamental. if your actually looking for some kind of DRM solution then your pr

Re: [PHP] Video question

2006-12-19 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2006-12-19 11:08:26 -0500: > How do I display video on my php page and prevent the video from being > downloaded. You cannot. -- How many Vietnam vets does it take to screw in a light bulb? You don't know, man. You don't KNOW. Cause you weren't THERE. http://ba

[PHP] Video question

2006-12-19 Thread John Messam
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