Locally, I have developed a music site by means of a WordPress theme, and it's running well. The problem is that once the media file is streaming in the browser, Internet Download Manager(IDM) detects it and generates the download link (That's the nature of IDM) .
So, I want to build my site such that visitors will be able to play and listen to the music, but they are not allowed to download the streaming media by any downloader.
Is there any PHP code, WordPress or jQuery plugin to do this?
Thanks in advance.
If you allow visitors to listen to a file, there is no way to prevent them from downloading it. Even DRM is broken if they are determined enough. If they can play it, they can save it.
That said, you have several options.
Use Flash to stream the file.
It is still pretty easy to download unless the file is embedded in the SWF or uses DRM. This is a common solution, and works well unless you need to support mobile browsers without Flash support.
Only allow one download per IP address.
This has major usability problems and will not work in many browsers. I don't recommend it.
Send the file encrypted and decrypt with Javascript.
Could be very slow, still doesn't stop determined users, depends on Javascript, requires either dataurl support or newer html5 audio apis.
Don't worry about it.
This is what I do.
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I have audio files saved in a folder on my server. They are called by JQuery JPlayer to be played. However if a person looks at the source of the page, they can find the location of the file and simply download it. I want to protect the files from being downloadable, but still allow JPlayer to play them. Is this possible?
I have tried denying the folder with .htaccess as well as password protecting the folder, but this prevents JPlayer from being able to play the files.
It's impossible to stop a savvy user stealing your media. But if you like, you could
use oAuth to govern access to the media resource
teach your server to only respond to media requests that contain "special" HTTP Headers, Cookies etc.
use DRM (washes mouth out)
some other URL obfuscating/expiring method you dream up..
To save time, i suggest you accept whatever you publish can be copied / taken. So, why not publish
a sample snippet (e.g. the first minute)
A lower-bitrate / mono taster version
Recently, a widget allowing you to stream Paul McCartney's new album was published in the Guardian.. how this is "secure" i don't know, I opened Chrome Dev Tools Network tab and helped myself to anything "audio/mpeg"!
I found a possible answer for you, using PHP:
Solution using PHP sessions
It's a long thread, but there's code there that will help you.
You should be aware (just in case you're not) that if someone can play the file in their browser, there is nothing to stop them playing the file and using recording software to capture the audio.
We have a video streaming website, and the company decided to make some of the video content paid.
So we built an authenticated area and finalized all the payment issues, and now we are down to the security part.
The videos have a .flv extension, and I want restrict their downloads.
I know restriction is kind of impossible for flash players and flv files, it's a client side issue, but the least to say I want to make it as long and complicated as possible for the videos to download.
There are alot of options for video download so I want a to disable the
Realplayer download,
Chrome and firefox extensions,
and any other way that can easily access the video.
My other option (very hard to go through again) to re-encode the original .mov to some other format that can be a bit more secure.
I am using the open source JWplayer.
I made it with 2 servers in one network. One of them is public server. I wrote small php media proxy, so the links to the media files go trough it (you can now to check where are requests from). The data server (with the media files) is with internal ip(not public) and if someone tries to get the media file directly, will fail.
I think this is good solution if you have own servers.
If you have only one server media proxy is good enough, but can be easly traced from man with good knoledge.
This is the first time for me asking a question. Hope you'll be able to help me.
Problem: my chef wants our enterprise application to have a module which allows customers to upload very large files to our server.
Infrastructure: php 5.x / mysql client-server app
Well known problems:
-HTTP session time out
-Upload limit in terms of number of files and file size
Rules:
-The solution mustn't use any applet (java, flash, ...), neither any browser plugin.
-The solution should allow users to upload any type of files, from simple images to very large files of any other type.
-For security reasons, we don't want to change the settings in the php.ini file, neither in any .htaccess file to allow the app uploading larger files.
-If a pre-backed solution exists, it should be opensource and possibly free of charges.
-Integration with AJAX functionalities and progress bar visualisation are heavily welcome.
Possible solutions (tell me if it's possible, and if it isn't, why?):
-Access by FTP using some javascript library in the browser
-Access by WebDAV using some javascript library in the browser
Any other solutions that respect the above given rules is also welcome
I know, I'm asking for a very hard thing to find.
What you're asking for isn't currently possible. The only technology for uploading files which is currently available in all widely used browsers is standard HTTP form uploads, which you've already rejected as a solution. All other solutions available require Java or Flash, or use browser JavaScript capabilities (local file access) which are not fully standardized, nor universally available.
You'll need to relax some of your requirements.
Create an iframe or frame, or browser-window that offers access to the server via FTP. Allows users to drop files there for those browsers at least who support FTP.
I have a number of sound files hosted by a third-party.
I would like to embed these on my site in some kind of player for streaming.
However, I need to hide the source URLs of these files from my users.
The point is to prevent users from discovering information about the third-party services we use, as some of this info is considered proprietary.
There is obviously no way to do this in straight html. Most methods that I have seen of embedding audio would leave URLs easily discoverable by just viewing the page source.
Is there a good way to keep this data hidden?
I would recommend streaming the files from a streaming media server instead of a progressive downloaded file directly from the 3rd party. Look into red5 - opensource media server
I am developing an application where I need to record voice(for those who does not have a webcam so they can use only microphone to record voice) or video(those who have a a webcam - like laptop or external) files and save them on server, thereafter save the file name and logged in users id on database for later access.
I know I need to use some sort of flash app for this. But is there any free one which could server this purpose or even if there are paid ones which could serve this purpose that would be great. I tried google but may be I was not being able to go after the proper term or something, I could not succeed finding a proper solution for this.
Please, help me out!
You can do that simply using jRecorder, a jQuery plugin. You don't even need a Flash Media Server or RED server. JRecorder is same as jPlayer, you can use jQuery and HTML to design your recorder and you don't even need Flash or Action script knowledge for this.
jRecorder uses 1 pix hidden swf file which manages all the recording / previewing and sending the file data (wav file) to a URL you defined (Where you can write code in PHP or Java to receive a POST file)
It is quite simple and tidy.
You can download this Plugin from:
http://www.sajithmr.me/jrecorder-jquery
I have same feature in our latest project, the client want to have video recording from webcam and the video appear in the user's profile page.
For the server, we implement the RED5 server. It need a Java virtual machine in your hosting. You can read the detail requirement and installation instruction in the website.
To handle recording, we develop our own flash application, because the client request a custom interface to match with the overall website interface. I don't know the detail, since we outsource it to a fellow flash developer. Maybe you can see follow this thread, the development of flash recording by JeroenW.
To play recorded video, you can use any flash video player that support playing rtmp video source. You cannot play the recorded flv file in RED5 directly, since the file lack of metadata required by the player. Serving the recorded file as rtmp is done by RED5.
In addition to red5 there is Adobe's own Flash Media server that allows you to record audio/video straight to the server.
Or if you feel geeky you might be able to put together your own solution for this using a socket connection to the server and decoding the stream yourself on the server side. You should be able capture the audio/video locally into memory and then feed the byte stream up to your own server application.
There are Open Source solutions but you will need an own server to run them.
There is no way to run these things from shared hosting except if your provider is really nice, and ready to install the necessary software.
I asked the same question a few weeks back, check out the answers.
This question when googling "How to record audio php" comes up first so here for anyone from the future.
A simple way to record audio with flash and save it with PHP:
https://github.com/clouddueling/SimpleRecorder
Record audio, post audio data to your choice of url.
You could try recordmp3online.com which has an SDK. The nice thing about this one, is that it doesn't need a third party server(ala Red5), and supports mobile devices that don't have flash installed.