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I am trying to come up with a solution to offering video files to members only.

The videos are stored on AmazonS3 and I will be using my own video player.

I am restricting the payer to only logged in paid members, but is there any way possible to hide the url of the source video file to protect it?

The Channel Files module from http://www.devdemon.com/channel_files/ can obfusticate URL’s, plus it has an Amazon uploader built in as well.

there are some other addons at http://www.devot-ee.com - found a couple for you:

http://devot-ee.com/add-ons/protected-links
http://devot-ee.com/add-ons/link-vault

thanks bluedreamer

I will have look.  My main concern is do they hide the url in an embedded video player.  I understand it is pretty easy to hide the source of a file you want to download, but can you hide the url in a video player?

<video id="example_video_1" class="video-js vjs-default-skin" controls preload="none" width="720" height="450"
      poster="images/201D1T2-4074.png"
      data-setup="{}">
    <source src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/directory/VIDEO FILE TO HIDE.mp4" type='video/mp4' >
    <track kind="captions" src="captions.vtt" srclang="en" label="English" >
  </video>

Yes with the addons I mentioned they obfusticate the URL, eg http://www.mysite.com/asljhowiueoqwidkql or perhaps use an ID number such as http://www.mysite.com/file/32

You’d be able to use the encoded URL in any tag you like, whether or not the file can be grabbed an played I’m not sure - there’s no reason why not.

thanks.  the devs at link-vault are going to test it with my player

Excellent! let us know how Masuga Design gets on, if it works then the knowldge will be useful for all of us 😊