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VideDisplay and *.flv file secure access

Asked by KCTeam in Adobe Flex, Apache Web Server

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Hi,
In a Flex application I use the VideoDisplay component to dispay videos (*.flv files).
Typically the source property is set to the *.flv file URL, i.e: "http://myserver.com/videos/test.flv" and all work fine. But a user can access video files directly in his browser.
I'm looking for a solution to add security on the video file access (by checking user session ID for example and/or having videos in a folder that is not published).
I try with a PHP file (see code snippet):

But I encountered some problems: video doesn't start fast, there is some big hangs and even the whole application hangs sometimes!

So here are my questions:
- Is it possible to secure access (by session checking for example)?
- Is it possible to store videos in a folder taht is not published on the website (not accessible via web browser)

Thanks in advance!

Note: I don't want to use progressive download (no FMS) and no DRM...
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header ("Content-transfer-encoding: binary");
header ("Content-Type: video/flv");
header("Content-Disposition: ".$this->contentDisposition."; filename=\"".$this->filename. "." . $this->fileExt . "\"");
header("Content-Length: ".$this->size());
$fp = readfile($this->path, "r");
return $fp;
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Solution Provided By: KCTeam
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