Disabling the "Save Video As..." in the Video Player module

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5/8/2012 1:10:30 PM
Antonio Salazar
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Disabling the "Save Video As..." in the Video Player module

The video player plugin on MSIE 9 shows the "Save Video As..." and "Copy Video URL" options on right click when playing a M4V video. This doesn't happen on Firefox or Chrome because they use the Flash player.

Can these menu options be disabled?

If not, can the Flash player be forced on all browsers?

5/8/2012 1:40:40 PM
Joe Audette
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Re: Disabling the "Save Video As..." in the Video Player module

Hi Antonio,

jPlayer is designed for html 5 and only uses Flash as a fallback mechanism so trying to force Flash is working against what it was intended for. iPad users for example won't be able to view it using Flash.

Using Flash also does not really secure the video or audio, a user could view the source of the page and get the real urls for the media and download it directly. So it seems kind of pointless to try to do that.

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Joe

5/8/2012 1:55:47 PM
Antonio Salazar
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Re: Disabling the "Save Video As..." in the Video Player module

Then the sensible option would be to disable the "Save Video As..." option, but I don't know how.

I was required to make it difficult (not necessarily impossible) to download the videos, unfortunately having an option for saving the video makes it way too accessible.

5/8/2012 2:15:21 PM
Joe Audette
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Re: Disabling the "Save Video As..." in the Video Player module

That is a feature of the web browser, it isn't something we are doing to add that. I don't know of any way to disable it.

I did find in the jPlayer documentation a way to make it prefer flash and fallback to html, I will add a to do item in our project tracker to add  a setting for that in the video player.

Best,

Joe

5/8/2012 3:20:46 PM
Antonio Salazar
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Re: Disabling the "Save Video As..." in the Video Player module

I think we can wait until it gets implemented, avoiding casual media download is not a crucial feature in our case.

Thanks for the quick response.

5/16/2012 8:05:07 AM
Joe Audette
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Re: Disabling the "Save Video As..." in the Video Player module

fyi, this is implemented in the source code repository so it will be in the next release. I implemented it as a config setting so you could add this to user.config:

<add key="KDMediaPlayer:VideoPreferFlashSolution" value="true" />

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Joe

5/16/2012 10:25:30 AM
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Re: Disabling the "Save Video As..." in the Video Player module

This is a common topic on the jPlayer Google Group too. There don't seem to be any great answers and jPlayer was not built to protect the files, just play them. A couple of ideas talk about ways to "hide" the files, but they often mention they just keep the casual user from getting to the files, but any body that is a bit web savvy would be able to locate the files and download them.  Here are a couple of threads discussing this topic.

https://groups.google.com/d/topic/jplayer/FejToSjo51k/discussion

https://groups.google.com/d/topic/jplayer/NTkm-lebL-s/discussion

If you find a good answer please let us know. Otherwise a different option may need to be explored.

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