Course presentation: ablity to prevent mp4 video download

Submitted by jarvil on Fri, 10/18/2019 - 13:09
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Hello,

For some reason that I can't understand mp4-video files embedded to the course presentation can be download by all users (students) in Moodle. Can you add on option that you can disable this download-button if you want?

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Course presentation: ablity to prevent mp4 video download
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otacke

Fri, 10/18/2019 - 17:02

Hi Jarvil!

It's not that difficult to explain or understand: It's what your browser does if you're using HTML5 video. Your best bet would probably be to override the stylesheet and hide the button, but that's not real protection still, as a look under the hood would still reveal the path to the video.

Best,

Oliver 

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jarvil

Mon, 10/21/2019 - 07:44

Hello,

Also if you hide the button with CSS you can still right click the video and select "download video". So conclusion is that video-feature is just badly implemented in course presentation -library since f.ex. in interactive video -library you cannot download the video at all.

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otacke

Tue, 10/22/2019 - 00:52

Hi Jarvil!

I'd rather argue that a software that is following the mission "to make it easy to create, share and reuse content" is failing if it tries to prevent users from downloading the content, but that's a different story ...

The video module of H5P uses the regular HTML5 object and you can do with it whatever the browser allows you to do, not H5P. You could add your own script that blocks the right mouse button on the video object, going down the futile road of on the surface blocking: Even if you did that, you could just have a look at the source code and get the video URL there. That's exactly what you can do with Interactive Video by the way. It's not solely relying on the browsers' HTML5 video player, but still exposes the video URL.

Best,
Oliver

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jarvil

Mon, 10/21/2019 - 07:46

Hello,

if you use interactive video you cannot download the mp4 so it's just a case of bad implementation in course presentation? Even if you hide the button with CSS you can still right click the video and select "download video".

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jarvil

Tue, 10/22/2019 - 06:28

Hello,

Thanks taking the time and for claryfying this for me, I didn't know your mission was to make it easy to share content so it's not a bad implementation but just a different implementations between course presentation and interactive video :) 

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otacke

Tue, 10/22/2019 - 19:28

Hei!

It is written in those large white letters on the front page ;-) There are quite some things that are not uniform, I give you that.

Best, 

Oliver