How would I use Crypto for videos?

[ashoka1]

BACKGROUND

I designed a media player.

The first page is a menu with thumbnails of the videos (buttons objects).
If you click a button, it takes you to another page with the video object.

So the page that has the video is simply a background image, with a video object pasted on top of it.

PROBLEM

I read in the archives of the forum, that people can steal content via the temp folder...and that the Crypto commands should be used.

However, when I look at the Crypto options in the "Actions" menu...
I CAN'T FIGURE OUT HOW TO IMPLIMENT THEM TO THE VIDEOS.

What should I do?
(Can someone provide me a "step-by-step", or point me to an existing tutorial?)

[Wonderboy]

First of all you wont really be able to protect movie files 100 %
but there are a few ways to make it harder for the user to find and steel your files,
what i would do is zipp files up that dont need to be extracted when the application starts and password protect them if possible,and files that do have to be avalible at anytime when the application is running, i would choose to move those files as soon as the application has extracted them to the Temp directory to another location on the users system into an obscure directorie, and renaming them to something obscure aswell, and when the application closes, these files could be set to be deleted aswell as the files in the default temp directory are deleted whenever the application exits,
this is one example to protect your files, however i have not tried to encrypt any video files myself, and so i can not comfirm if that is possible or how that would be done exactly.

[Wonderboy]

Ok i came up with a solution that would make it abit harder for people to steel your movie file or even use them in otherway than thrue the application itself, i made a script that disables the windows clipboard funtion temporarly whenever this specific ams application is running and another script that checks to see if any window called Temp folder is active at runtime,and if the tempfolder was opened on the system it would automaticly close the application and since the application deletes its files whenever it exits i hade no way to copy or to get any files from this application from the temp directory, might be a weird solution but i think this solution is the best i have tried sofar, hope somebody ellse can comment on this, since i was not able to get to these files i hade in this application,other than if i used my laptop

[jaga]

hi
i have the ams 6.0 trial
i try to secure the apz from the temp file but i cant
maybe because i have the trial ?
any chance to secure the temp file ?
any script or plugin ?
before i buy i want to know if its posible
please help !

[Wonderboy]

Hello and welcome to the forum!
Well there are ways to protect certain files really well,
but some files are harder to protect, some files can be ecrypted and some
files can be hiden in smart ways and there are different ways to protect different files,
So you want to try to hide/protect files with the trial version , i dont really
think you will get the most out of the protecting your files with the trial version, the full version however has some really nice features witch are not avalible in the trial version, and are not avalible in menny other application sutge as Autoplay Media Studio can offer,Autoplay media Studio is the best and easiest complexed software i know of with tonz of features, that aint avalible in menny applications, and ones you get to know the scripting it becomes easier and easier for every day you work with it, and protecting files can be done in menny ways, its just a matter of imagination and experimentations,
and these forums offers great support ones you are stuck, and what more can one ask for!

[Wonderboy]

in the full version you will have the option to use the crypto plugin,
witch is a very nice plugin that can encrypt and decrypt files from within ams.
then as i said , there are menny ways to go about protecting your files from the end user.and you can even use third party protection tools together with ams and make it even harder for people to get your files.

[Wonderboy]

What kind of files are you trying to protect if i may ask, allso in what way are you trying to protect them?

[ashoka1]

Ok i came up with a solution that would make it abit harder for people to steel your movie file or even use them in otherway than thrue the application itself, i made a script that disables the windows clipboard funtion temporarly whenever this specific ams application is running and another script that checks to see if any window called Temp folder is active at runtime,and if the tempfolder was opened on the system it would automaticly close the application and since the application deletes its files whenever it exits i hade no way to copy or to get any files from this application from the temp directory, might be a weird solution but i think this solution is the best i have tried sofar, hope somebody ellse can comment on this, since i was not able to get to these files i hade in this application,other than if i used my laptop

This sounds like something I could use.

I worry about the clipboard being disabled though. Ordinary users might find it strange that they can't copy/paste while listening to audio/video from my media player.

I like the part about Autoplay closing if the temp folder is open.

How would I enable this in my media player?

[jaga]

What kind of files are you trying to protect if i may ask, allso in what way are you trying to protect them?

i try to protect all the file , from txt,doc,exe to jpg,bmp,gif
where do i find the crypto plugin for ams 6.0
or maybe one script to give a try
are you sure about protection from temp file in full version ?

[Wonderboy]

Hello try this but this wont protect them for copying the temp folder to get your files if they really want to,but it will prevent them from opening the temp folder and getting to look at any files by trying opening the temp folder
OK here is the codes

put this first script on Preload

Page.StartTimer(1000);
-- A for loop that counts from 1 to 10
min = 1; -- The number to start at
max = 10; -- The number to stop at 
for count = min, max do
-- Get the titles and window handles of all open windows.
windows = Window.EnumerateTitles();

-- A variable containing text in the title you want to search for.
window_name = "Local Settings","Temp";
-- Loop through the table of windows.
for handle, title in windows do

-- Check if the window title has the target text.
result = String.Find(title, window_name, 1, false);

-- if the string was found in the title, send the window a close message.
if (result ~= -1) then
Application.Exit();
end
end
end

then Put the same code on Show
then put this on Timer

-- A for loop that counts from 1 to 10
min = 1;  -- The number to start at
max = 10;  -- The number to stop at 
for count = min, max do
	-- Get the titles and window handles of all open windows.
windows = Window.EnumerateTitles();

-- A variable containing text in the title you want to search for.
window_name = "Local Settings","Temp";
-- Loop through the table of windows.
for handle, title in windows do

    -- Check if the window title has the target text.
    result = String.Find(title, window_name, 1, false);

    -- if the string was found in the title, send the window a close message.
    if (result ~= -1) then
        Application.Exit();
end
end
end

now preview the application and try to open the temp Folder, if you do open the temp folder when the application is running, the application should exit instantly,

[Wonderboy]

Only put the "Page.StartTimer(1000);"
in the On Preload script

[ashoka1]

Hello try this but this wont protect them for copying the temp folder to get your files if they really want to

Okay, now I see why you need to disable windows clipboard.
Can you instruct me on how to do that also (disable windows clipboard)?

Thank you so much for your help.

put this first script on Preload...

Only put the "Page.StartTimer(1000);"
in the On Preload script

Okay, I'm putting the code into the preload script of each video object.
Is that where it should go...in the preload section of the video object?
Or should it be placed in another part of the project?

The reason I'm asking is just to make sure I'm doing it right.

[Wonderboy]

I have fixed some problems i saw in the previews script i gave you above

You need to put this script on the page1 where i imagine your mediaplayer is at,
double click page 1
and put this on Preload only ones

Page.StartTimer(1000);
-- A for loop that counts from 1 to 10
min = 1; -- The number to start at
max = 1; -- The number to stop at 
for count = min, max do
-- Get the titles and window handles of all open windows.
windows = Window.EnumerateTitles();

-- A variable containing text in the title you want to search for.
window_name = "Local Settings","Temp";
-- Loop through the table of windows.
for handle, title in windows do

-- Check if the window title has the target text.
result = String.Find(title, window_name, 1, false);

-- if the string was found in the title, send the window a close message.
if (result ~= -1) then
Application.Exit();
end
end
end

then put this exact script on page 1 aswell but on Timer

-- A for loop that counts from 1 to 10
min = 1; -- The number to start at
max = 1; -- The number to stop at 
for count = min, max do
-- Get the titles and window handles of all open windows.
windows = Window.EnumerateTitles();

-- A variable containing text in the title you want to search for.
window_name = "Local Settings","Temp";
-- Loop through the table of windows.
for handle, title in windows do

-- Check if the window title has the target text.
result = String.Find(title, window_name, 1, false);

-- if the string was found in the title, send the window a close message.
if (result ~= -1) then
Application.Exit();
end
end
end

do not put these script on every video file, only put these 2 scripts on page 1
and put them in the correct place.
try this first and get back here and we will figure out the rest

[ashoka1]

Okay, just a note...
The way I have my media player setup...

On Page 1, there are buttons that link to different video pages.
So page 1 is basically a menu page.

And after page 1, pages 2-8 contain 1 video object each.
(That the user gets to by clicking the relevant button on page 1).

Would your code still work in this situation?

What I'm going to do is put your code on each page that contains a video object.
Let me know if you have any objections.

[Wonderboy]

Ok Try that out and see if that works!
then get back with info