Streaming Video Products

Not yet, No point until I deploy a test site. That's happening very soon.

Are you interested?

Hi all,

Ive managed to crack this - just about - on my site.

What have I done?
Recoded a couple of pages and now the following happens.

Customer makes a purchase of a video. The download/view limit is set to 5(for example).

Customer follows checkout process.

A new page is created for the customer called 'My Library'. From here, the customer can review the movies that they have purchased.

A 'play button' is next to each title. Once they click on PLAY, a lightbox FLV player appears and plays their movie. Once the movie has been viewed/ or they exit the movie player, a deduction is made from their overall viewing limit.

However, I dont want the customer to be able to download the video, which i cant seem to prevent. But I am working on that

If anyone is interested, let me know as I will have a test up shortly.

You can make it difficult for the casual user to download and have your video, but it's pretty impossible to stop someone who is determined to have it.

I know its frustrating, but there are tools (free plugins for Firefox to start with) that will capture anything shown on the screen.

grimrita:

However, I dont want the customer to be able to download the video, which i cant seem to prevent. But I am working on that

If anyone is interested, let me know as I will have a test up shortly.

There is a way to prevent this - using the RTMP protocol from a streaming server like Imediasee.com. Yes, anything appearing on a computer screen can be captured BUT not, at present, at 30fps at full raster. If someone wants to go to the trouble of capturing a movie at 5fps instead of paying a buck or two to watch it they're in a very small minority.

I'd be interested in seeing the php code that redirects to a library screen.

David

I have built a modification that allows for wowsa, imediasee and other cdn hosted RTMP video on demand products using the latest version of zencart.

All you have to do is create an xml playlist for jwplayer pointing to your rtmp stream and upload this xml playlist to your downloads folder making it the downloadable product. If the filename begins with vod_ then zencart knows to deliver it in an obfuscated video jwplayer with all the usual zencart security and symlink intact.

Otherwise it is treated just like any other downloadable product except you cant easily download the file or scrape it from the player using download manager or realplayer.

If anyone is interested contact me.

phill (a t) phillsmith (d o t) com