API stream video from HTML5 video player but secure

[deeaamon 0]

Hi all,

I am working on an external script using the API to stream videos from an ionic app. The problem is the video player is HTML5 and videos are downloadable.  I don't want the videos to be downloadable.  Here is a break down of what I want to do.

1. Have a user login using the AuthenticateByName endpoint.  I already have this working
2. Grab the User Token from the above step.
3. Access a video by the video ID and by the User Token
4. Once token is expired can no longer access the video

Also in HMTL5 if a user views the pages source code,  it shows the URL for video including the api_key.  I want to use the token so that they cannot go directly to that URL to watch the video.  

Hopefully this makes sense to you all.  I don't know exactly how to explain my dilemma.  I am trying to learn the API by building a streaming video service like Netflix.  No reason I just want to learn how to do it.  But it would be nice if the videos were secure and could not be downloaded.

Thanks for any advice

Darrell

 

[Luke 37011]

Hi, I would suggest searching the community as there are existing discussions about this already.