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Good Morning,

is it possible for my members to watch the video without being able to download them?

thanks

I've been looking for the same kind of solution for some time. I believe that would require some security settings with your video host, outside of s2member. The best secure host I've found so far is a service called brightcove, but their price is steep.

Thanks for your reply. Do you think that we can do something with S3amazon?

These days it's really hard to prevent someone from downloading a video as there are many programs that can extract a file from a streaming video player.

I protect videos on my site by using Lighttpd + FlowPlayer. I use htaccess to prevent hotlinking by only allowing access to the files within my domain. I also block direct access of the files (ie. if you try and access a video directly in your address bar you will get redirected). There is also an expiring token system for the videos URL (the actual URL of the videos is hidden and replaced by an expiring link).

However, even with all this in place it's still possible for a member to download the video from the streaming player through third party software. But, at least I know that non-members will not be able to access any of the protected files.

Perhaps these could help?

http://s3flowshield.com/
http://www.cdnvault.com/
http://s3mediavault.com/

Thanks for both of you!
I did figure out how to do it with S3amazon and cloudfront. It's working fine.

Here's the real test. Download this for FireFox which will allow you to extract streaming video from your site.

http://netvideohunter.com/