How to Restrict video file from downloads?

Question

Hi Guys,

I have a video file in my site and i want to Restrict video file from downloads for all users.I need to play only the video not for download how do we do this.I am looking for some good responses.

Thanks for your help

Answer 1

Then you need to convert the video into a Flash video (which will loose quality).

Otherwise you need to use a video streaming server, which costs money.

Answer 2

There is no good way for this. As Travis has said you have to convert it in .swf and post it. There are sites which does this for you.
some are youtube.com, grouper.com, video.google.com. These sites will save the files in .flv format. But there are still some cheats for these files to download.
The other way is streaming, and there are some sites, which offers this too. Some are http://www.videodesk.net and http://www.mydeo.com. If you have your own server read this article
http://www.mediacollege.com/video/streaming/http.html.
Hope this helps.