Rants,Raves and Ruminations

If you are a security freak and don't want anybody grabbing your video, the Flash Media Server 3 has a rather nifty feature built in to it. The feature? Stream encryption. Herre's how you enable it:

1. Toss your video into either the application folder you have created for the project or into the vod folder.
   
   
2. Open Flash CS3 and, when it opens, whip an FLVPlayback component on to the stage.

This is where it gets really neat:

When you set the content path you usually use the following address:

rtmp://localhost/app/instance/myVideo or, if you are using a Streaming version of the server you would enter rtmp://localhost/vod/myVideo.

To encrypt the video stream you change the address to rtmpe://localhost/vod/myVideo.

Simply adding the letter "e" turns on the encryption feature of FMS3.