Videos hotlink protection

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The issue of hotlinking, for me, may be a bit different from others. I don't mind someone embedding my videos on their sites or whatnot. What can, however, become a problem is if someone runs their own player and link to my files directly. That's what I believe most of us here would like to avoid.

This can happen to any site that allow hotlinking.

Using RTMP (and even lighttpd), there are ways to secure the file such that it can only be called from certain players (or your sites player in particular). This is what I am trying to accomplish now.

I see some site pass video id to FLV player and it fetches the url. Anyone with a proxy to monitor access or having flash decompiler can break it.