How to lock video files ?

[altaf]

i want to lock my media files being preview and play on any other pc and also link these files with a specific editing software.

can any body suggest me any software to do that easily??


thanks in advance

[Baldrick]

Moving you to our newbie section. This is not a guide.

No, you wont find any easy solution for this. Add instead a watermark.

[poisondeathray]

Instead of locking individual files , another approach is to use folder locking software that requires password (search google)

[zoobie]

If you have your own site, you can just password-protect the whole folder containing your video clips from your site's control panel.

[Cornucopia]

I'm thinking the OP, altaf, wants to create a video file that no one can use without viewing through a certain viewer/player app.

The only consistently reliable and yet still standards-compliant way to do this that I know of is to:
A. Create your own encrypted video codec standard
B. Make that codec's decoder dll work ONLY with a certain player app (with that app also custom-built by you)
C. Provide ONLY the decoder DLL and player app on your site - NEVER an encoder app.

What you will have done in the end is gotten to the same place that many security-video companies are right now.

But you must understand that THIS STILL DOES NOT GUARANTEE NO ONE CAN DECRYPT & RIP IT.

Ultimately, if you provide a means to display it (the decoder & player), you've provided an out for a decrypted version of the video, which can then be frame-captured/recorded to a separate standard codec, usable in standard players.

The axiom of "if I can see it, I can rip it" is still true.

So then you've gone through all that trouble to design & create a custom encoder, decoder, player, etc. only to get back to a state where you have to trust people to do the right thing...

Would have been alot easier to pick a different business model (or never show your video at all).

Scott