WMSAuth Paywall is a feature set of WMSPanel which is the admin and reporting panel for media servers. This feature set can be applied to Nimble Streamer software media server. It allows restriction of your media access by:
- hot-linking re-publishing protection;
- geo-location and IP ranges;
- connections count.
Please read Paywall section of Softvelum website for details: https://softvelum.com/paywall/
"pay-per-view" directory has reference code, requests and responses for pay-per-view feature set described in respective articles for Nimble Streamer and Wowza.
The following sample code snippets are provided for quick and seamless integration of hot-linking protection. The repository directories have the code as described below.
"CSharp" contains C# snippet.
"java" contains Java snippet.
"javascript" contains NodeJS JavaScript snippet.
"python" contains Python snippet.
"php" contains snippets for PHP:
- jwpayer-rtmp-hls.php - code sample for JWPlayer with RTMP and HLS
- jwpayer-rtmp-hls-with-proxy.php - code sample for JWPlayer with RTMP and HLS which has IP address obtained from various headers - see https://blog.wmspanel.com/2015/02/using-paywall-cloudflare-proxies.html for details.
- rtmp-flowplayer.php - Flowplayer sample with RTMP
- basic-hls-rtmp-obfuscation.php - basic sample for HLS and RTMP with code obfuscation agains grabbers, see this article for details: https://blog.wmspanel.com/2015/07/protecting-media-links-from-web-scraping.html
- basic-hls-stream-based.php - basic sample for HLS where signature includes streams name
- basic-rtsp.php - basic sample for RTSP
- ppv-rtsp-rtmp.php - sample of RTMP and RTSP signature for pay-per-view
If you look for code samples for Android or iOS, notice that we do not recommend using link signature code in mobile apps. Please read Q19 in paywall FAQ: https://softvelum.com/paywall/faq/
You may also check publish control framework for managing streams publishers: https://blog.wmspanel.com/2015/10/rtsp-publish-control-framework-overview.html
