Making QT movie NON save-able/downloadable

[Liam Stephens]

Hmmm its a little bit tricky. I used to use a program called live stage pro in which u could write a script that took the viewer out of the page the QT movie was embedded in before it completely had loaded. I would put a bit of extra black on at the end so the viewer could see the whole movie before it took them away. With todays recording software u are pretty much out of luck. The best bet is not to use QT, try something a little more obscure which may hinder the viewers experience (codecs, quality etc) but will be a bit more secure. Good luck i’m sure there is a good way to do it.
L

[John Pale]

This is done in the coding of the webpage. It is not done in the movie itself.

https://www.soundscreen.com/qt_webmasters/kioskmode.html
https://devworld.apple.com/documentation/QuickTime/Conceptual/QTScripting_JavaScript/bQTScripting_JavaScri_Document/chapter_1000_section_5.html

[Koolkat]

Thank you… However, being rather new to this all, where to I paste that code? Also the page you sent me says I can Save Protect using both QT Pro and GoLive but doesn’t say how… any ideas?

Thanks a lot for your help!!!!

J

[John Pale]

Open the page with your movie on it in GoLive. Click on the movie so its properties show in the Inspector. In th Attributes tab, Click the “Create New Attribute” button in the lower right corner. In the 2 spaces at the bottom of the Inspector replace the text “attr” with “kioskmode” and replace the text “value” with “true”. Save your page. The movie will now display in a browser without the pulldown save menu in the right-hand corner. You can also do this in Dreamweaver in a similar manner.

If you have Go Live (or Dreamweaver) you dont need to paste any code. If you dont, look at the source code of your webpage and search for where the code for the embedded movie is. You will see the things like …just add a new parameter that says .

Hope this helps.

Note, this is not tip-top security, but will prevent the casual user from being able to save the movie. There are more secure ways to do it, but they are beyond my skill level.

[John Pale]

hmmm. if you read my above post its a little puzzling because the Cow deleted my sample HTML code. I guess I cant do that here.

[Koolkat]

John thanks buddy!!!! However, I find that I can just click and drag the movie from my browser window onto my desktop and save that way. Do you know a way around that one?

Thanks

Julian