Need help setting up pay per view movie site

[stephan]

Hi,

I had someone helping me to set up a pay per view movie site (non adult and all legal as I have an agreement with movie distributor).

I am looking for a little bit more than just a simple ppv site. I want a mixture between imdb.com and a ppv site.

So I want info about actors, producers etc. Then for the movies I would like to have it the following way.

When you click on a movie you see an image and a short description. Then you have the option to drill down ie see a list of actors that have been in the movie, view the trailer, see what awards the movie won or was nominated for and pay in order to view the full movie.(each option should be on a different page).

Only registered members should be able to pay for watching the full movie and only when they are logged in. Once they paid they should have 24 hours to watch the movie.

I want to use flowplayer to play the movies and a CDN for storing the videos. The movies MUST have a unique security token for each purchase so that there is NO WAY of sharing links or watching the movies even after the 24 hours have expired.

Then similar to imdb.com I want that each actor etc will also have their own page with the list of movies they were in.

This is the basic idea.

I can provide more details if needed.
Also willing to pay if needed.

Thanks in advance.

[Cristián Lávaque]

Hi Stephan.

You can create all the pages as needed with WordPress.

Then, where you'd put the link to watch the movie, use a conditional to show it only if he's logged in.
WP Admin -> s2Member -> API / Scripting -> Using Simple Conditionals
http://www.s2member.com/api-scripting-overview-video/

The link to watch the movie would actually be a purchase button for a specific page, where the movie is, set to expire after 24 hours.
WP Admin -> s2Member -> PayPal Buttons -> PayPal Specific Post/Page Buttons
http://www.s2member.com/specific-posts-pages-video/

The file link protection for the CDN would need to be set up with them.

I hope that helps.

[rossagrant]

Stefan, also look at a premium plugin called S3 Flowshield.

www.s3flowshield.com

It's an awesome piece of kt I use on my site to protect videos and comes with built in shortcodes to easily embed videos inside the built in Flowplayer.

I simply set up pages as Critian suggests and host video on Amazon S3 which is super cheap. S3 Flowshield protects your videos as it has links that expire 5 seconds after the video loads. That means the user can watch the video whilst on that page but if they try to pass the link to the video onto anyone else then the link is dead.

100% protection.

Might be worth checking out for you and stops the whole hassle of setting up Flowplayer!

[stephan]

Thanks to both of you for your help and advice.

I will have a really good look through your comments and see how I can implement them.

Thanks

[Cristián Lávaque]