Blob URL for Cloudinary Video Player

Edward Huang

June 27, 2022 04:51

I was wondering if the Cloudinary Video Player is able to take blob URLs (I would not like to reveal the source so that someone can just find the source and download my videos)? I tried adding a blob URL as the publicId and the video player errored with "Uncaught cloud_name must be provided in the configuration".

Below is my code I'm currently using. You can assume objects like vplayer, data, and playlistOptions have all been initialized correctly. I'm thinking that maybe I should not be using publicId to begin with? Would appreciate any and all guidance. Thanks in advance!

const playlist = [];

for (let i = 0; i < data.chapter_urls.length; i++) {

const mediaSource = newMediaSource();

playlist.push({

publicId: URL.createObjectURL(mediaSource),

info: {

title:data.chapter_names[i]

},

poster: {

publicId:data.chapter_thumbnails[i]

},

textTracks: {

captions: {

label:'English (captions)',

language:'en',

default:false,

url:data.chapter_captions[i]

}

}

});

}

vplayer.playlist(playlist, playlistOptions);

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  Thomas Gurung

  June 27, 2022 10:48

  Hi Edward,

  Thank you for reaching out. 

  Unfortunately, our video player does not support blob URLs and also even if blob URLs worked, you can probably still obtain the playback URL from the network tab of developer tools.

  If you want third-party users from being unable to download your videos then I would recommend checking out token or cookie-based authentication which you can find more on here.

  I would also recommend checking out https://support.cloudinary.com/hc/en-us/articles/202519742-Can-I-allow-access-to-uploaded-images-only-to-authenticated-users- which described the various types of media access control we offer.

  Please let me know if you have any other questions or queries.
  
  Kind Regards,
  Thomas

   

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