Streaming Live feeds - Security Question

[fulcrumstudio]

Wondering if anyone has info on streaming live feeds for our site. We are considering sending a stream to one of our unix servers.

Here's the question: once stream is encoded with the new windows media encoder and pushed to the server can someone still view source and see the open port and IP of the feed or is that protected and secure???

Ace

[raymor]

Yep, it's just a link like any other.
The only difference being that rather than
http it 's rtsp or mms. (mms just redirects
to rtsp or http, user's choice).
You can put the link to the actual stream in a metafile
and then link to the meta file, but it comes to the same thing.
They can open the meta file in notepad and there's
the stream URL.
If you want to make sure that people are passing
around direct links to your streams you can either
stream via http from behind Strongbox or use the services
of a DRM company like ObjectCube on the streams
and then use Strongbox on the pages that link to those streams.