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Our website will have member only videos to view. I’m unable to get the Lightbox to play our MOV file (no idea why and have wasted an entire day). Anyways, we could put our videos up to YouTube with the “private” setting activated, however, is there a way to protect the YouTube URL from being accessed? We don’t want the actual private YouTube URL to actually be seen or else the viewer could share this link and others could view the video without membership. Perhaps there is an easier way all together. I’m open, but everything I’ve tried is not working.
[http://herdingdogacademy.com/the-eyes/]
HERE ARE THE SHORT CODES ON THAT PAGE:
[wp_lightbox_special_mov_video link=”http://www.herdingdogacademy.com/videos/Transition_02.mov” width=”640″ height=”480″ source=”http://herdingdogacademy.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/stock-photo-1974360-three-sheep-in-a-row.jpg” title=”Rating the Livestock”]
[wp_lightbox_special_mov_video link=”http://www.herdingdogacademy.com/videos/Transition_02.mov” width=”640″ height=”480″ source=”http://herdingdogacademy.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/stock-photo-1974360-three-sheep-in-a-row.jpg” title=”Video title goes here”]
[wp_lightbox_prettyPhoto_video link=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYB5Hxa3p4Q&feature=youtu.be” width=”500″ height=”500″ description=”Video description goes here” source=”http://herdingdogacademy.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/stock-photo-1974360-three-sheep-in-a-row.jpg” title=”Video title goes here”]
YouTube is not for selling protected or private videos. You could embed a normal YouTube video on a post or page and then protect that post or page so only members can see it (security by obscurity) but a user will always be able to go to YouTube directly and find that video if he knows what to look for.
If you are selling your videos or want to make it available to your members only then you will need to either host these videos on your site or on Amazon S3 (amazon s3 is the popular choice among video sellers). Lightbox ultimate has a nice feature for embedding private/protected Amazon S3 videos. Please check the following documentation for details (see the “The Ultimate Video Lockdown” section):
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