(*) Video content protection via Flash?

[(*)BlackZer0]

Hello,

I don't even know if this is feasible:

Embed a 15-minute video file into a SWF movie, which will be downloaded from a website.

The point of this is to limit the number of times that a file can be viewed. Each time the SWF is opened, it connects to an online database and increments a "view counter" which will deny access if equal to the limit value.

My tech questions:

- Can Flash handle a 15-minute video? Will it crash, be choppy or have a huge filesize?
- Can Flash read/write from an online database? (I'm guessing yes on this one...)

I hope this idea isn't too unrealistic.

[jaybirch]

yep, the filesize will be huge, no way around it, maybe you can start streaming the video after x% has dowmloaded.
Flash can read from database, xml or a simple text file.