Re: Securing Windows Media Encoder streams/broadcasts

From: emde (emde_at_na.com)
Date: 01/27/05 

Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 17:48:58 -0800

"Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]" <neil@nospam.com> wrote in message

> It was a starting point only, consider it an option. You haven't
> clearly defined why you *need* high levels of security on your stream
> from the encoder, so lets not get too high & mighty about this ;-)

Even for personal use, do you really want someone snooping in on your video?

As for the remander of your idea, it will not work for one simple reason.
Most people access the internet thru a firewall/nat, if you open an IP up
(the firewalls IP) you have granted access to everyone at that site to your
video. I was just curious if there was a simple way to add authentication.
The program supports DRM, which to me seems a bit more complex than a simple
username/password.

Anyway, thanks for the input. It looks like there isn't any way to do this
with the free media encoder. Perhaps I'll check out server 2003 at work just
to see what is different. I'll post my results.