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Password protecting QT Media
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Does anyone know of a way to require a password when viewing a QT movie through a browser or in QT Player besides using access keys? I have Sorenson Video Pro 3, Sorenson Squeeze, and QTSS 4 to work with. Thanks for any help in advance.
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Originally posted by ColonelSawtooth:
<STRONG>Does anyone know of a way to require a password when viewing a QT movie through a browser or in QT Player besides using access keys? I have Sorenson Video Pro 3, Sorenson Squeeze, and QTSS 4 to work with. Thanks for any help in advance.</STRONG>
Are you planning on using the web/internet for delivery? Password protection is a server side thing. You may want to move your question over to the web area.
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T Allen is right. You can stream the movie and password-lock the stream, but you can't require a password on the file itself. The QTSS4 documentation can show you how to do this.
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Thanks for the help guys. It's going to be embedded in a page hosted on a Win2K server running IIS and ColdFusion. Password protecting the entire page was always an option, but I was hoping to do it through QT. I tried using Media Keys with Sorenson 3 compression, but had no luck either.
It's funny how little information about this sort of thing exists on the web - seems like it would be a popular thing with copyright issues and such these days. Thanks again for the help, I'll take a further look at the QTSS 4 manual.
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Originally posted by Millennium:
<STRONG>T Allen is right. You can stream the movie and password-lock the stream, but you can't require a password on the file itself.</STRONG>
Actually you can lock the file itself if you are using one of the S�renson codecs. This is known as a 'Media Key'
There is info in the QuickTime Help and at S�renson's site.
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Unfortunately, the copyright of the particular content requires us (Educational Institution) to be more proactive then just adding a copyright disclaimer. It's a matter of being able to view the content on campus, but not being able to view the content off-campus, unless you can authenticate as an employee, student, alumni, etc.
I have tried using Media Keys from within Sorenson Squeeze and had no luck - it just has no effect. I was hoping for a way to present password dialog box to off-campus users, but I guess QT doesn't offer this type of functionality. Not that I see it as a shortcoming of QT or anything, just thought it would be a neat way of handling it, if it were possible.
Thanks for all the help.
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