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dleavitt
dleavitt

Reputation: 1392

Prevent Downloading of Mobile Safari Video

Via HTTP Live Streaming or any other method, is it possible to embed videos in a web page that:

  1. Are viewable in Mobile Safari?

    and

  2. Cannot be directly downloaded? (when the user navigates to the media URL in a browser, they should not by default get a downloadable file.)

Flash and Silverlight can serve media that meet these criteria on desktop browsers. I'm wondering if there's some way to meet this criteria that is compatible with Mobile Safari, which does not support Flash or Silverlight. The media need not be impossible to rip, just difficult to download with a browser alone.

For example, on the below site, demonstrating HTTP Live Streaming, I can just open up the video URLs and do File > Save. This is what I (actually the client's legal team) would like to avoid.

http://iphone.akamai.com/

Edit: Tried to clarify my question based on responses so far.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1084

Answers (2)

Parth Bhatt
Parth Bhatt

Reputation: 19469

@dleavitt:

As per Apple's HIG, It is a fact that an app cannot have control of the things outside its sandbox.

So as the Mobile Safari Browser is not in the sandbox of any of the iPhone/iPad apps, it cannot be controlled. You cannot modify or make any changes into its default behaviour.

So keeping it in simple words, You cannot stop downloading videos via Mobile Safari Browser as you dont have control over it.

Hope this helps you.

Upvotes: 0

Lawrence Cherone
Lawrence Cherone

Reputation: 46620

its known fact that anything accessible to a browser is downloadable, otherwise the browser couldn't get it. most users are to busy watching the video to think about downloading it, but if they want it there get it...

Upvotes: 1

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