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Originally Posted by borked
yeah, username/IP - that's a great deterrent but huge server overhead (and delay before download) to do that as it needs re-encoding for each download. Possible, but practical?
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Hello. I'd say it is quite practical. Re-encoding the video itself wouldn't be practical but with most file formats there is a header area for meta data
My Apologies, I dont have 30 posts yet so cant do proper links.
www [dot] microsoft [dot] com/downloads/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=56de5ee4-51ca-46c6-903b-97390ad14fea
If you look there is a header area where you could encode the username/IP as metadata. This should be pretty quick as it doesn't involve any reindexing of the video or any of that sort of thing. A simple file copy and edit the meta. If you have a large busy site and cant spare the resources for real time file copying there are ways around that too... ie having a pool of extra copies of files that are created during downtime and header/metadata edited real time [should be extremely quick business]