How to protect videos?

[Walaybad]

I want to protect some of my video's from being convert.

Basically i upload video's from my home country with my site tag and some people download my videos,They use some logo cleaner software to clean my site name then retag as their own video.

Is their anyway to protect my videos in any format?

[RFBurns]

Sure. Run a script so that it prevents downloading of the video's and only allows playing. You could set it up so that the page will have an embedded player, and when a selection is clicked on, the player goes and searches for the video file located elsewhere that is not accessable to the end user, and is only displayable via the embedded player through the website. If done correctly, even looking at the source script will not reveal where the video file is located, and the source script is written in such a way so that regular HTML inputting via a browser or even an ftp will not let it be downloaded.

I had a very smart webmaster do this for my internet radio station about 4 years ago, which the only way listeners could listen to certian special audio files and videos was through the embedded player on the page. There was absolutely no way anyone could download the audio or video files.

Of course however, if one were to use a stream capture program, that might be a way to get around it. What I would do to add more security is to CG in your logo over the video, maybe in the lower right corner much like how the broadcasting stations insert their station logo but it is somewhat "transparent" but there. It is impossible to remove that. If someone tries to remove it, they would have to black it out or smudge it digitally, at that point its obvious the video is stolen from the source. I doubt anyone would want to claim a video as theirs where there is a blotch digitizing out the actual owner/proprieter logo.

[celtic_druid]

Looking at live headers will basically always give you the real address. The only way to 100% protect the videos is to not upload them.