On Dec 20, 10:08 pm, Dave <Dave[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
[Quoted Text] > How can I prevent other websites from hotlinking to our live video streams
> and using our bandwidth? What plugins are recommended? Is there a simple way
> to do this?
>
> Thanks,
> Dave
- Build your own dynamic SMIL (Server side playlist) service
generating one-time tokens.
- Buy Voynex mediaguard plug-in
- Use Microsoft DRM technology
The first option is not that hard if you are familiar with basic
scripting (PHP/ASP/whatever)
The SMIL file on your Windows Media Services server side playlist
simply points to a script location you control and to which you can
pass along certain variables. Your remote script then determines,
based on the incoming variables, wether to serve a valid source
location to the server-side playlist (or not). The actual location to
the stream on your WMS is never revealed and could even be locked-down
completely only allowing it to play through your 'secured' server side
play list.
This way you could dynamically create unique URLs that are valid only
for the specific client ip address requesting it and preventing hot
linking as a result. In theory this could be circumvented but in
practice this will prevent almost all cases where people dump the URL
to your content on other websites.
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