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If somebody likes to protect the videos here is the solution:
Install User access management (UAM) plugin.
Define an access group.Upload the videos to the media manager, I changed the maximum size via .htaccess to a gerater value matching videosizes.
Give the files access restriction within the media manager.
Restrict the access to the video page itself too.
So only registered users can access the video and even knowing the url won t help others as the video itself is also protected.
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Hi Dirk,
That’s fantastic. Thanks for much for the tips.
Here’s a link for everyone to the plugin: http://wordpress.org/plugins/user-access-manager/
Thanks again.
Making the web work for you, Alec
Hello Dirk,
we tested how this works.
1. Unfortunately, none of the videos loads for us on iPad once we enable the “Lock files” option of the plugin. It just says “Video file not found”.
It doesn’t matter if we use “Download type” of “Normal” or “fopen”. It doesn’t matter if the actual media item has the access restriction enabled or disabled.
There must be something wrong in the HTTP response headers. I checked these HTTP headers of these files with “Lock files” enabled and disabled. The plugin seems to add following:
Content-Description
Content-Disposition
Content-Transfer-Encoding2. Another issue is with seeking. You can’t see to a part of the video which is not yet buffered. This works nicely in the HTML5 player, as you can see what’s buffered and what’s not (Safari 5.0.4). However in HTML5 player of Google Chrome (21) if won’t let you seek even in the buffered part.
That’s simply because the file is served via a PHP script (which checks the access restriction) and it doesn’t support range requests (no “Accept-Ranges” in HTTP response headers).
Thanks,
Martin
Hi Martin,
Do you think these issues could be fixed by the plugin author or that the UAM solution just won’t fully work under any circumstances?
Making the web work for you, Alec
