MojoHost announces Wowza Flash Media Server Version 2.0! (GREAT educational read!!)

[AdultWebmaster]

Originally Posted by Brad Mitchell

Normally we use the current authentication for the members area and restrict the members stream so that it may _only_ be streamed to the domain that the members area resides on. This makes it impossible for the stream to be used on any other domain and allows the content to be protected by apache (by protecting the player/swf). As for the encoding, we are willing and able to help get server side encoding setup but it is not feasible to be able to apply these settings to the wide array of desktop based encoders. FFMpeg is the industry standard for content encoding and we are able to help you come up with an encoding line that meets your needs using that package.

Brad

Hmmm, thats interesting.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but media stream is played on user's computer (user's browser first downloads the flash player and then the player connects to media stream from user's IP). So simple IP limitations for stream view will lead to users unable to see the stream at all.

Also, I think there is some ambiguity about "encoding" term. In the context encoding doesn't mean changing media codec (for which FFMpeg is used). It means "encryption".