Selling Video on Demand (sell streaming videos)

[Matt]

I couldn’t seem to find a definitive answer in the forums, but I’m looking to offer video on demand, though after purchase, the links would not expire. One time purchase and view as often, and for as long as you want.

Currently, store links are setup to expire after 12-hours.

Is it possible to do this (allow unlimited access to a video or page) without the link for this specific product, expiring?

Thanks!

matt

[wzp]

Yes. If you trust that your customers will not pass the links around.

I recommend you use the following eStore feature to handle the selling of your streaming videos.

http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/ecommerce/using-wordpress-permalinks-as-digital-products-apr-1217

[designthemedia]

how can we do that?

[wzp]

First, it is necessary to understand that link expirations are global for encrypted links. The default value of 5 days (or whatever you set it to) applies to all encrypted links.

If you only wish some links to be non expiring, then you would uncheck the “Downloadable” box under “Digital Content Details” and the link will be an unencrypted, non expiring link.

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The fact that the non expiring link is no longer encrypted does not add risk to your product, because the link itself does not expire. However, as I stated in my previous post, you must trust that your customer does not share that link with other people.

It is analogous to the video store trusting you won’t pass that DVD around before returning it.

[sqm]

@Matt – I wouldn’t do it – I’ve been offering VOD for 2 years now, and customers CONSTANTLY try to buy and pass the links around.

[loravo]

I understand that selling VOD as membership (membership level A = access to Video A) is possible, and this is what I am after with help of Amazon S3.

I need my customers to “own” the video they pay for while they logged in, so they can watch it over and over again at any time, but can’t pass the link around.

I think I once found some instructions on how to set this up, but can’t find them anymore. I would appreciate if someone could direct me towards the instructions if they exist, or give some explanations on how to set this up correctly.

Thank you!

[wzp]

What you do is setup a page that allows members to get “fresh copies” of expired links they have already purchased. You then use the [wp_eStore_download_link_sender] shortcode to resend fresh copies to the registered email address. You need to install the “eStore Extra shortcodes” package.

[loravo]

Thank you for such quick reply wzp, I found the plugin and the corresponding shortcode.

However, I would like to find a more in-depth instructions on how to set up my store the way I need, if those exist.

What I need is to sell video tutorials without download option so that a customer has access to this video on my web site only (but cannot download it) whenever he wants to watch it and as many times after payment, but can’t pass the video around in any form.

As far as I understand, I need to assign each video to a separate membership level, so when customer buys this membership level he has access to his video from the moment he pays and this membership level is activated. Right?

Please forgive me if I’m asking too much, but I’m a bit confused with this complex plugin setup (I have 3 plugins purchased: membership, shop and lightbox).

Thank you for your willingness to help if you can.

[wzp]

Perhaps you can host your videos on Amazon S3, and use our Lightbox Ultimate plugin to embed the videos on your WP site and securely show them to your customers. http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/wordpress-lightbox-ultimate-plugin-display-media-in-a-fancy-lightbox-overlay-3163?ap_id=TheAssurer

You’d then use eStore’s APR feature to create protected pay per view (PPV) pages so only a paid customer can access the video. More explanation on this feature here: http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/ecommerce/using-wordpress-permalinks-as-digital-products-apr-1217

[loravo]

Thank you! But if I set it up as PPV, would my users be able to return to those videos later after viewing them once? I need them to be able to watch them at any time over and over again while they are logged into my web site.

[dorham]

That’s exactly what I’m doing on my website with eMember + eStore and it works like a charm. I’m using the (membership level A = access to Video A) and with the multiple membership and the selling limitation of eStore it’s really great beacause people get access to all videos and can’t buy the twice.

I think you don’t need the PPV option, just use this shortcode on the page where the video is:

[emember_protected for=id]

put your player code here

[/emember_protected]

By doing that only premium will see the video on that page.

Take care about the player you choose, you’ll need an RTMP player

[loravo]

Thank you so much dorham, I’m on my way to implementing this scenario!

[loravo]

dorham, if you don’t mind me asking, what should I do in order to use RTMP player? I see Enable Flowplayer function in my plugin settings. Do I need to install another plugin for RTMP player? Would Flowplayer not be usable in this setup? Thanks a million!

[dorham]

The plugin I use is not from T&T HQ and I don’t want to share it in public mode in order to not distrubr this forum. So just type this in google it should do the tricks : rtmp player for wordpress academy

[admin]

Our Video lightbox ultimate plugin also has RTMP video streaming support using Amazon CloudFront and S3 (if that helps):

http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/wordpress-lightbox-ultimate-plugin-display-media-in-a-fancy-lightbox-overlay-3163

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