Video Security With Amazon S3Flowshield

Sometimes embedding your YouTube videos on your WordPress website doesn’t work. The videos might be flagged by YouTube as infringing on someone else’s digital rights, they may be taken get shut down, or their have their audio removed. There is a way to get around this by using other free or low-cost hosting services for your videos.

So, when you want to have full control over your content as well as over the access level to the content, a very good option is the Amazon S3 plugin.

Amazon’s S3 plugin works as a management tool, as well as a repository for your video files. Amazon S3 is the platform that allows you to store and manage as many videos as you like. It’s your own personal harddrive in the cloud, but you only pay for how much bandwidth you use. So if none or your videos were viewed this month (unlikely, since your videos are awesome!) then the cause is zero.

The plugin itself works a little like Windows Explorer (or the Finder on a Mac) so you can navigate folders you create and see the videos you have uploaded.

You can drag and drop files in and out, and, for each one of them you can set the access level that you’re comfortable with. So, as far as ease of management comes, the tool works as advertised; really simple and solid. By limiting access you can avoid video tampering, video theft and any other fraudulent uses of your content.

Video Security With S3Flowshield

While S3 manages the content and allows you to quickly get your video repository in order, with S3Flowshield you get some more perks. They include bandwidth management and major security for all of your S3 files, not just the videos.

What this plugin does is to create URLs for your video content that are authenticated; this means that you can select who sees the content. For example, if you have content for the your membership site the URL your website uses to pull the video is authenticated. This means that someone can’t post the URL of your video on their site.

While the Amazon S3 plugin and the S3flowshiled offer the best combination of management plus security for video on WordPress, there are some other plugins you can check out: Secure HTML 5 Video Player, FlowPlayer, and Secure RTMP Video Player.

Overall, however, the best security and management is achieved via the S3Flowshield plugin, and at the moment it is the most widely used plugin for video security and management.