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Hi there
I saw that i’m not the only one dreaming off the feature 😋
Do you think you will someday release an offline feature that allow users to see vidéos offline ?
Or can we pay for this custom développement ?Thanks :)
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Hello Cirdec,
thank you for the question!
We do not actively plan on working on this feature.
There are many security concerns disrupting possible implementation of this feature. Moreover, it would be quite a demanding project.
I will ask our development team to see if anything changed, and if this could possibly be arranged as a custom development.
Thanks,
MariaHello Cirdec,
FV Player Pro has a feature to let your users download the videos (certain types – MP4 and Vimeo): https://foliovision.com/player/advanced/video-downloading-with-simple-history
However if you would like to also prevent the video piracy it would be a whole another issue – we would have to integrate with DRM provider like EzDRM or BuyDRM – they do offer offline DRM protection as well.
If you are building a mobile app, then that would have to be taken into consideration as well.
Thanks,
MartinHello Martin,
your answer is 9 months old, so I dare to ask again:
It seems I have to implement the possibility for our customers to download the videos, use them offline, and still the videos should be copy protected.
Am I right that you still have no plans to implement DRM?
Thanks for your time
MichaelHello Michael,
we still do not have plans to add this.
The integration of EzDRM or BuyDRM might be possible to do with FV Player Coconut, but it’s a fair amount of work and even that doesn’t give you a working protection against screen capturing.
With downloads the protection must be even weaker. It seems these services would have to be used for each video download and then it might only play in their proprietary application or using their SDK.
Thanks,
MartinHello Martin,
sorry, I found your answer just now. Am still chewing on the offline viewing with copy protection.
Yes, it can be solved with DRM and native mobile apps. These have the possibility to store the license and the encrypted video in a persistent memory of the mobile device. Costs a few thousand $$$ and makes us dependent on the DRM provider AND the app store rules.
I am thinking now about Progressive Web Apps (PWA) to realize offline viewing with copy protection (hacking should be a little bit more difficult than screen recording). PWAs use browser technology (HTML, CSS, Javascript), can be used similar to mobile apps, but do not need to go through the app stores. They do have the possibility to use local memory, even persistent memory on mobile devices.
Would you have capacities and interest to look at this as a custom development project?
Thank you for your time,
Michael
