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Do you have a video broadcasting project that you’d like to create as a private event? Maybe you have sensitive content that you’d like to turn into an? Just curious to learn more about password protected live streaming with DaCast in general? Whatever your digital and video security needs, DaCast has got you covered!
In this article, we’ll teach you how to create password protected video–in just a few simple steps. Before we get started, let’s a take a closer look at why password protected live streaming is so important, for both broadcasters and viewers. Then we’ll turn to the steps to secure your content in your DaCast account. We’ll wrap things up with a review of video monetization as an alternative to password protection. What is a Password Protected Video? Simply put, password protection places video content behind a required password prompt.
With password protected live streaming, the viewer has to enter a password before accessing this content. With the DaCast, this password is generated by broadcasters themselves. That way, you can create a secure password and record of this password in a secure place. Why Password Protected Live Streaming? There are a variety of reasons why you might choose to use password protected live streaming.
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Password protection can be crucial in business and other professional contexts. The business industry has increased its video usage at an annual rate of 50% in recent years. Given this trend, it’s important that training material and sales messages remain secure and accessible only by qualified or approved people. Click the following link to read more about the benefits of a for your business.
Are you an or a medical facility? Chances are high that you broadcast sensitive material alongside your public material. If that’s the case, password protected live streaming might be the way to go.
When it comes to broadcasting live video stream, the greatest security risk entails a 3rd party who records and redistributes your content without your permission. The same goes for on-demand video content. Nowadays, many strive to prevent just this through heightened security on its streaming content.
This security ranges from the complex to the mundane, given that content is both streamed and accessed via progressive download methods. That said, it’s important to keep in mind that no security system is foolproof. Even with password protected live streaming, someone can still film or capture their computer screen to copy content viewed. However, we do know that password protected live streaming via your DaCast account can greatly increase the security of your content. Here at DaCast, we are committed to offering high-level security options to our broadcasters. Now let’s take a closer look at how this feature works with your DaCast account.
How to Password Protect Video with DaCast? DaCast allows you to password protect both live video content and on demand content. After signing up for a DaCast account, you can initiate this process from the PUBLISH SETTING tab for your content. When turned ON, a field populates that enables you to enter a password.
This is the password your viewers will enter to access your video content. IMPORTANT NOTE: Please make sure that you click the SAVE button in the lower left corner when you finish this step. Where to Embed Password Protected Streams? With DaCast, you can by embedding password-protected videos–using either the JS or iframe embeds. You can find these codes in PUBLISH SETTING, under the “Embedded player codes” listed above.
You can embed the player in as many locations as desired. From there, the password protection will carry over. You can also share password protected live streaming and on-demand content via Twitter. Viewers can then click the tweet for an expanded view. At this point, they need to enter a password before gaining access to your content. Please note, right now password protected streams DO NOT work on Facebook. We are working to add this as a feature.
However, right now we have no current projection for when it might be available. Password Protection on Playlists and Packages You can password protect your playlists in the same way as you do with an individual live channel or video. To do this, go to the PUBLISH SETTING tab shown above.
First turn this feature ON and then enter a password. Once you enter the password, the viewer gains access to the playlist. They can then watch whatever content is currently playing. Please note that this feature does not currently work for packages, unfortunately. If you add content to a package that has a password enabled, the package will ignore the password and allow the content to play.
Managing Passwords Have you Googled your video and the password and found it posted on a forum? Password sharing has been a problem since the internet made it easy to distribute these openly. But not to worry!
You can quickly log into your DaCast account and replace the old password with a a new one. This will re-secure the content and force any hopeful viewers to gain access via password protected live streaming and on-demand content. You can also disable password protection at any time by switching the feature from ON to OFF. You can do both of these processes in the same way that you created the initial password. They involve going to PUBLISH SETTING for your content.
Video Monetization or Password Protection By design, content that is monetized over DaCast can not have password protection enabled for it. It doesn’t make sense to charge someone to access your video and then have to enter in a separate password that they might not know. This could result in the system blocking a paying viewer from content for which they’ve already paid.
You don’t want to open yourself up to viewers seeking refunds. Refund requests can mean a loss in revenue, as well as a loss of customers, for you. So remember: content that has subscriptions or by nature cannot have password protection enabled. Conclusion Password protection is an added security feature we highly recommend for your broadcasting. Password protected is increasingly the way to go for broadcasters and viewers alike.
At DaCast, we make this feature easy and accessible for all our broadcasters. Interested in checking out DaCast’s for the first time?
You can sign up below for our 30-day free trial (no credit card required) to test out all the features for yourself. We’d love to help you get started with your password protected live streaming today. Finally, any questions, comments, or thoughts to share about password protected live streaming? We’d love to hear from you.
Leave a comment below, and we’ll get back to you as soon as we can. For exclusive offers and regular live streaming tips, you can also join our. As always—thanks for reading, and good luck with your live streams! By Elise Furon.
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Netflix and other online video services might wish that people didn’t know about PlayOn, but the DVR for streaming video is becoming harder to ignore. Last year, PlayOn quietly released a to emphasize DVR features. With a $60 lifetime license (or monthly payments of $5), users can record videos from dozens of streaming services, automatically skip the commercials on ad-supported shows, and stream videos from the PC to phones, tablets, game consoles, and connected-TV devices.
PlayOn has now come up with a name for its headlining feature: “SVR,” short for Streaming Video Recorder. It’s also added a couple of helpful features, including ad-skipping in PlayOn’s mobile apps and a recording scheduler, so users don’t need to hog bandwidth during evening hours. The hope is that people who hate losing Netflix shows to, can’t stand sitting through ads, or don’t want to grapple with limited streaming bandwidth will finally take notice. “Now that we’ve more or less completed the features, we feel like it’s time to repackage it up and market it as what it is,” said Jim Holland, director of marketing at MediaMall, which makes PlayOn. “It’s truly a fully-functional SVR, very similar to the DVR that people are using on a cable box.” How PlayOn works When you first setup PlayOn, it loads a lightweight media server program that runs in the background on your PC. This is how PlayOn monitors for recordings and streams videos to your other devices.
You then use PlayOn’s desktop app to find shows and set up recordings. Streaming services and websites such as Netflix, Hulu, HBO Go, CBS, and Adult Swim appear as tiles in PlayOn’s “Channels” menu, from which you can navigate a list of shows, seasons, and episodes. The software lets you record entire series, grab specific episodes, or “subscribe” to new episodes. (Holland says PlayOn has located the URLs for each channel’s streams, so it can automatically detect and record new arrivals.) For the actual recording, PlayOn employs some trickery, playing and capturing the video through an invisible Internet Explorer window.
The videos themselves are stored as MP4 files in whatever directory you want; you don’t even need the PlayOn app to access them. Just note that PlayOn embeds your name, email, and IP address at the beginning of each video to “keep people honest,” Holland said. PlayOn’s new scheduling feature (accessed through the crescent moon icon at top-right) lets you download when bandwidth is more plentiful. Watching directly in the PlayOn app has benefits, however: You can view all your recordings in organized lists, skip through advertisements, and send videos to your TV device of choice, using (more on that later). PlayOn also offers iOS and Android apps, which can stream videos directly or act as a remote for casting to other TV devices. As for ad-skipping, PlayOn doesn’t actually remove ads from the video file.
Its video player just knows when to skip over them. Unlike the ad-skip solutions on and Dish Hopper DVRs, which are programmed by humans, PlayOn uses an automated system. This means it should work with any ad-supported show, though MediaMall’s Jim Holland wouldn’t get into details on how the system works. One downside to this whole setup: To record Netflix, PlayOn needs to install Microsoft Silverlight, a plugin that otherwise serves little purpose on the modern web, and sometimes becomes a.
Is PlayOn legit? If you’re wondering how streaming services feel about PlayOn, the answer is most likely “not great.” Last year, Netflix director of corporate communications Cliff Edwards that downloading videos was a “clear violation of the terms of service,” and that Netflix’s “licensing agreements don’t allow companies such as PlayOn to facilitate these types of uses.” Still, violating a terms of service agreement isn’t the same as breaking the law, and PlayOn has long maintained that users are just exercising the same rights they had with VCRs. The fact that PlayOn wasn’t sued into oblivion after launching its first recording features four years ago seems to bear out that claim.
“The same statutes that protect the DVR and the VCR before it protect us,” Holland said. The company also points to a 2013 Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision in favor of Dish, which ruled that ad-skipping is not a form of copyright infringement. (Major TV networks all settled their cases with Dish instead of taking the issue to the Supreme Court.) A better question might be whether streaming services can stop PlayOn from working. So far that hasn’t happened, and Holland isn’t sure it’s possible given that videos are technically playing in a browser on the user’s computer. “I never want to say something’s technically impossible,” he says. “But I’m not sure how they would do it.” Right now, PlayOn does rely on obsolete software to function. It records videos through Internet Explorer, using plugins like Microsoft Silverlight and Adobe Flash, all of which could be phased out by their makers and by websites over time.
But in an email, MediaMall CEO Jeff Lawrence gave an unfazed response about the bright future of using HTML5. “We have already developed the ability to use embedded Chrome (or 'CEF') instead of IE, and will be selectively migrating certain channels to it as early as next week,” Lawrence said. What’s next for PlayOn Having built up a fully-functional streaming DVR while eluding legal troubles, PlayOn is now looking to expand its presence. Right now, the process for getting PlayOn videos onto TV devices is a bit convoluted. There’s no native interface for browsing your recordings on Fire TV or Xbox consoles, while PlayStation consoles require you to browse through Sony’s media player app. Roku app in its official channel store several years back, so users must download a private channel if they want to browse their videos through that set-top box. (A separate Roku Channel Store app allows for selecting videos on a PC and casting them to the TV.) It all makes PlayOn seem sort of illegitimate, even if it’s not illegal.
PlayOn’s PC software lets you cast video to TV devices such as a Chromecast. PlayOn might soon push for more legitimacy. Holland said the company has a Fire TV app awaiting approval, and hasn’t ruled out native Xbox One and PlayStation 4 apps down the road.
PlayOn might also try to get its full Roku app approved for the official Channel Store. Holland noted that screen-mirroring on devices like Chromecast have helped normalize the idea of sending web videos from a PC to the TV.
“It used to be that the content providers were much more protective about what you could get to the TV, and what you couldn’t, and Chromecast changed the game on that,” he said. “We’ve just seen much less anxiety about certain content getting to the TV screen than we used to see three or four years ago.” Later this year, PlayOn also wants to move beyond the PC.
Holland wouldn’t elaborate too much on those plans, but he noted that PlayOn’s ties to the PC have been a major complaint. (I would also note that PlayOn doesn’t currently work on Mac OS X.) “We have a lot of consumers who would like to not have to have a PC—a Windows-based PC—in order to use PlayOn,” Holland said. “I’d caution you from guessing at what that means the next step is, but it’s a demand we need to meet.”.