No! Someone viewing my videos from videos.videopress.com!!!
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For all my VideoPress videos, I have unchecked the sharing menus. I also specified two websites to allow embedding. But I can see someone viewing my videos from videos.videopress.com. Someone got the mp4 url of my videos and anyone can now view from the web if they know this URL. Any way to disable/prevent this?
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Raincoaster thank you for your response. I bought the VideoPress upgrade for $60. My videos live in a private blog. So are you saying, my videos are public no matter what? It doesn’t matter if they live in a private blog? How could someone discover the URL of each video?
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Then this needs a response from staff. Files uploaded to a private blog shouldn’t be publicly searchable or viewable. If you uploaded them to a different blog and hotlinked them to the private blog, then yes, they will be searchable.
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Hi actuwaiters:
Your videos will remain private as long as they solely reside on your private blog. The VideoPress URLs and embed shortcodes will work on ANY WordPress.com site if they have the URL/code – but there’s no way that anyone can search or find your videos unless you share the URL/shortcode.
As raincoaster said, any videos you post or upload on a non-private site will be searchable.
I hope that clarifies things.
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I have tonight signed up to videopress/wordpress in order to use videos in my limited user blog. I was hoping for complete privacy and have set the no-share and only allow embed on my domain. (I have a separate WP install at different domain.) However within 10 seconds of uploading a test video I opened up the source, searched for ‘mp4’, and was playing/downloading the video in a completely different browser… http://videos.videopress.com/Jpry0QEf/wildlife_dvd.mp4
What’s more, the source code looks like if javascript was turned off that the actual web page would just give a page with a link the video above!
So despite the videopress homepage advertising “Strict privacy control”, the videos is not actually private – it is perfectly shareable (just not through the videopress gui.) My WP site will be charging people for membership, and naturally I don’t want one devious user going through all the video pages collecting links and pasting them publicly!
This seems a fundamental flaw. If you look at YouTube or Vimeo html source, there is no urls of the underlying video, and I can’t download the videos to share elsewhere, edit, etc.
Is there any way to solve this? Some other setting I’m missing? Or is it a flaw in the videopress design? Surely the video url should not be the compressed file itself, but be something dynamic that only serves up the video if the HTTP_REFERER (or something like that) is at one of the domains I’ve set in the settings?
Thanks.
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However within 10 seconds of uploading a test video I opened up the source, searched for ‘mp4’, and was playing/downloading the video in a completely different browser.
This is actually possible with any video service/player, and just a trade-off of publicly publishing something. In fact, in most cases you can disable Flash where HTML5 options are available (YouTube and Vimeo), and right-click the player itself for a download option.
What’s more, the source code looks like if javascript was turned off that the actual web page would just give a page with a link the video above!
You actually won’t see anything.
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