Know much about DRM?(BIZ THREAD)
 

Well I am looking into DRM and p2p type solutions. I am wondering if there is any easy/cheap way to setup your own DRM authentication server? Is that even necessary/possible? When companies say 5000licenses/month does this mean 5000 licenses for the one file? Or 5000 files?

What I'm trying to do is add popups to videos, for p2p release.


Thanks guys

T minus 10 until some GTS/P2PAds rep posts. :1orglaugh

I think DRM solutions suck.

Necessary in some cases, but all I've seen suck: They all don't work in all instances, like an un-DRM'd video. They're a pain in the ass to implement. Etc. Etc. It's almost as horrible as developing content for wireless, which is even a bigger nightmare.

However, I'll give props to ObjectCube ( www.objectcube.com ) for trying their best at providing DRM solutions.

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There may not be a cheap way to setup a DRM authentication server. When it says 5000 licenses, that means that every time someone downloads and plays your video or whatever you are trying to DRM, that equals one license. If that particular file is downloaded 5000 times and played (first time play only) then the 5000 license limit has been reached. Hope that's not too confusing. We use the CCbill DRM system, it's not bad overall. We have been using it since they came out with it back in 2003 or 2004. I think they give you either 10000 or 50000 licenses (not sure) per month.

ccbill is 50,000 per month for $199 and sliding scale after that

if you need drm clips check us out , we offer free drm clips from over 50 sponsors http://www.smutlounge.com

Yeap just grabed me a shit load from there last night:thumbsup

Unless they have changed their contract, CCBill's DRMNetworks is $99 for the first three months and then $299 for 50k licenses.

I prefer to think of DRM as a necesary evil - unless you want your video content appearing on every file sharing site on the Internet, some type of copy protection needs to be used. I do think this is a much more important issue for sites producing their own original content, as the investment in money and time is so much greater.

Fuck DRM. Flash video is the next wave of control and protection.

man, I was just playing with premiere pro, and I just found that it has a flash encoder built into the god damned thing

how do you go about presenting the videos to members? is the player embedded or do you have them download the flash video?

with software like snagit and similar ... DRM is obsolete... members trying to get around it have no probs... so seeing your content all over p2p sites will never stop .... sweetentertainment doen't use DRM and I personally think it's just a quick cash grab ....

Embedded. The coolest part about the new wave of flash video is you can present a high quality video inside of a branded player that allows the member to have on his desktop all the movies he wants to download from your site.

He can play it full screen or whatever he wants. The video using Flash 8 (On2 V6) is higher quality and smaller than WM9.

But, even though he doesn't have to login or even visit the website through a browser, the flash player can authenticate him every month to make sure his card has rebilled.

I don't know about you but when I was a surfer If I had the option of watching and storing porn on my computer without having to login I would. It's a great way of covering your tracks.

This can also be done with On2's VP7 codec which is actually better quality than Flash 8 but an extra install is necessary, but I don't think it's as convenient as the new wave of flash.

hey man, you seem really in the know with all this shit....is there anywhere I can go and read up more on what you just talked about? I am really interested in this, it sounds like an ideal situation for paysites

Drm
 

Honest to say we didnt have any good experineces with DRM.
Many complains from clients.

Kind regards
Frankie
kscans_com

Sure, I'll give you a few sites to check out.

The first two are obvious:

www.on2.com

http://www.macromedia.com/software/f...info/features/

The third is more down and dirty with the video functionality and uses:

http://flashcomguru.com/

And here's one extra:

http://www.flashmagazine.com/

It's definitely the future of porn video delivery. It keeps our stuff off the p2p networks and still offers a superior user experience for the surfer while making sure we get paid at the same time.

I know of one feeds provider that went all flash recently. I can't remember the URL though.

If you ever need a good Flash media app designer let me know 152970595 I know of a couple companies that do it well.

I am pretty sure that www.camz.com is all flash delivery now

awesome links man, thanks, I am going to give it a shot tonight with encoding to flash in premiere and see how it goes

Make sure you have the updated On2 codecs for premiere or just use the encoder in Flash Pro. It's much better and smaller than all the flash codecs pre 2006.

Thanks for the props.

DRM is in fact free. Get the WMSDK from Microsoft and if you know C#, VB, C++, VB.NET or any other .NET lang (even PHP) you can develop every thing your self.

DRM is not for every thing, I for one do not push every one to use DRM (eventhough I make money selling this stuff).

We are betting a lot of money in Flash, over the past one year we have developed Flash based Pay Per Min system and few other VOD solutions all based on Flash.

Flash video still have some short commings, but from what they have in the labs at Macromedia I am sure by year end it will becom a defacto video codec.

Jay
objectcube

Judging by the popularity of YouTube, Google Video and the many other flash based video sites gaining popularity out there I'd say you are correct.


Hey Jay, I've been meaning to ask you about this for a while... what software are you using for your direct DVD to Flash video conversion? I saw you mention it a couple of months ago.

We had our own encoder for DVD to WMV and now we are extending that to do Flash. Still not perfect (It has to convert DVD to MEPE2 and then Flash).

If you have small batch then use Sorenson

Jay

Also if you know a good software to take DVD to MPEG2 let me know.

Jay

Definitely, Videocharge is the my favorite converter for all things non flash.

I really mean that. It has the best quality and functions of them all and I've tried all of them.

For Flash I've been using Swish Video which allows batch conversions from several file formats even WMV.

I would still like to see something do it from DVD in one step.

can you do batch operations in videocharge? I need something to convert and split up a video into multiple formats

swish rocks..

Edit: I mean I would like to see something go from DVD to Flash (with the new codecs) in one step.

Videocharge does DVD to MPEG 1 & 2, WMV, MOV, DIVX, XVID, AVI and some other stuff with no problem.

Cool links... I have a quick question. Do I just buy Flash 8 and it will make Flash video? Or do I need to buy some special version of Flash that is seperate? I haven't used flash for a while so I am out of the loop.

Most definitely. It does so many functions that we need as porn webmasters I am starting to think one of us created it! LOL

Check this out, you can edit a file, make thumbs and screencaps, chop it, convert it to your desired format in several bitrates, and upload it to the server with one click of a button! LOL

And yes, basic batches can be done as well too. I have it working on a huge batch on one of my computers now.

Buy Flash 8 pro for the encoder with the new codec. It comes with a video encoder in the package.

If not, then you are fine buying the Flix Encoder which probably gives you the best quality flash file.

I prefer Swish because it's a brand I trust and it has great functionality. IMHO, unless you are doing extensive flash com sever programming, Swish is the best flash authoring tool. Swish Video is just an extension of that. If you've never used it do yourself a favor and download the trial.

um....holy shit?
LOL

why haven't I been using this for months now? haha

wow, I just got Sorenson, thanks for the link Pornwolf

one question, is it possible in Sorenson when doing the batch conversions to also do a conversion in the batch that splits up the file into multiple sections?

.flv vid embedded in a flash page. Makes it so users cant dl to their computer to watch, but protects it for sure. :2 cents:

Awesome I love it,

I am interested in learning a little bit more about how exactly the flash file interacts with a server? Is this 100% custom end? Or is there an out-of-the-box solution?

I'm also interested in hearing ways of grabbing a watermark dynamically.

Thanks

As mentioned earlier, the quality of flash video has seemed to get much better with the last version. But I would be interested in knowing exactly how embedding flash video prevents it from being captured by the screen capture software programs mentioned above, for example.

I know that Microsoft is constantly having to take steps to keep up all the links in their security chain, but there is still an analog hole as of now, because they want people to be able to watch movies on their TVs. Once the hackers seriously start tearing into the security system for the new flash files, how secure are they going to be? Adobe can not exert nearly the pressure that Microsoft can to make sure other companies are not making products to get around their system.

Good point.. bump for this.