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ramya
ramya

Reputation: 2780

How to prevent downloading HLS (m3u8) segments files from browser

I am developing web portal to deliver Videos On Demand. Its all been deployed on AWS(Amazon S3, AWS Lambda, and Amazon CloudFront)), content is on S3 and using aws cloud front services to stream video. I have used Amazon Elastic Transcoder to transcode media files into the HLS format(HLS segments and playlists). I am using signed url to protect download access to m3u8 files.

I am facing issues to protect downloading of segments file (.ts files), we can easily inspect these .ts files using chrome/browser inspection tools and download these segment files. These files are playable and making my video delivery solution insecure.

Please let me know how can i prevent downloading of HLS segment files? I have already done required settings to protect direct access of media files from aws s3 bucket like given in following articles(denied public access using bucket policy etc).

Attached are the screen shot, where we can see that .ts files are downloadable by inspecting in to the browser and can be played, that I need to prevent from download or play.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/mobile/streaming-videos-to-mobile-app-users-via-amazon-cloudfront-cdn/

https://medium.com/@akshatpriyansh/securing-videos-on-your-sites-using-aws-elastictranscoder-and-hls-part-4-7ed2bc76b442

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Upvotes: 3

Views: 2624

Answers (1)

Ahmed Ramadan
Ahmed Ramadan

Reputation: 11

you could encrypt those files so whom download won't be able to deal it without decryption key

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQ_BX1Su0qc

Upvotes: 0

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