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Originally Posted by plsureking
great technical comparison between h264 and lighttpd lol
regarding the posters question, how does strongbox prevent using a program like Replay Media Catcher or even easier prevent a user from grabbing the url of the file from the source and downloading it directly?
i dont know much about your product, except that when we built PornCMS we decided to use in-page logins like all the major social sites. strongbox uses its own login page and requires an htaccess controlled members folder.
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I was actually comparing the lighttpd pseudo streaming that was mentioned versus the same in modern Apache, but in the h264 case the same conclusion can be drawn. Extensive testing shows that the only thing faster about lighttpd is that it (incorrectly) skips atime updates, so using noatime makes Apache as fast, or faster if tuned correctly.
I'd need to look through the mod_h264 source to give precise answers about protection, but my understanding is that most of the Apache hooks run, so it's protected much like http through Apache. If some adjustments are needed, we're quite familiar with designing and coding Apache modules. Apache 2.2 has some real advantages there compared to the old Apache 1.3 code underlying lighttpd.
Replay is another thing entirely. Assuming you allow them access to the video, making it impossible to save requires significant changes and in fact no currently available systems do that too well. You're basically talking DRM there and as we know DRM pretty much failed. However, several years ago we created a solution for a university that we'll be adapting for the public internet. The university system was based on maintaining the encryption even through RAM, only decrypting it on the video card itself. Therefore no program running within the OS could get the media. Watch for an announcement on that soon.
If you happen to know any, we need some good Flex programmers to help implement the new version of that system.
These posts were typed on my phone, so please excuse any typos.