Video downloads

[navjot]

I have seen video gallery flashdb_gallery but the videos are able to download in mozilaa.They should not be downloaded.

Please help!!!!!

[Jorge Solis]

By default videos are not downloable ... anyway is easy to download any video that is not streamed (from a streaming server) and i.e there are a ton of plgins to download YoutTube videos. So if your goal is video protection, consider use a Streaming server (FMS, Wowza, Red 5) instead of a progressive download.

Jorge

[navjot]

Hi Jorge,
              First Of all thanks for the reply.My Problem is that when i use the flash gallery in a simple html page the videos dont get downloaded even by mozilla downloader but moment i put it in asp.net framework it starts downloading .Why is this happening??
 Is this gallery made only for php?

Any help will be appreciated.

[Jorge Solis]

I have writed in PHP, and can say that it works as it's. Translation to other back-end languages are outside my domain ... anyway, the PHP script just output the content of a directory as an XML, open directly the aspx page and check that you get the correct XML

Jorge

[navjot]

Hi Jorge,

                Please can you tell me that when i host the flash file .The videos get downloaded.

I have embed the flash file in an html page.this page does not let real palyer download the flash file but when hosted real player starts  downloading movies.

   Please explain this ......if possible.

[Jorge Solis]

Post the URL to take a look

Jorge

[navjot]

http://cramnot.weexcel.in/gallery_flashdb/video.html

[Jorge Solis]

Working fine, not downloads on Firefox 3.5 and IE 7 ... are you sure you don't have some kind of plugin (very popular since YouTube) for download FLV files?

Jorge

[Ronald Wernecke]

works perfect on IE8 too.

[navjot]

yes jorge i have a plugin (mozilla downloader).What i want to say is that even this plugin doesnt download the movie clips on local html page.

BUT
when hosted that plugin starts downloading.........Please can u check this.....i need help..

[Jorge Solis]

Disable or uninstall the plugin and try again

Jorge

[navjot]

hi Jorge,
               Please can you check your gallery with the plugin. .
On localhost atleast.

[Jorge Solis]

If the user have a plugin to catch FLV files, there's nothing you can do to prevent any FLV player to work except to add some disclaimer giving an advice to disallow if they want to see videos online (anyway usually they use to download any video local) The same happens with some mp3 players and other plugins. Try avoiding the .flv extension for the files in the XML

Jorge

[navjot]

Hi Jorge,
               I have actually tried to change the xml file.But somehow it does not except the swf's instead of .flv files.if i try to put .swf files in the src attribute of xml.

[Jorge Solis]

The gallery use a MediaPlayer component to play videos, and MediaPlayer component only works with FLV, not with swf

Jorge