Video Stream Protection, what version to buy

[telpochyaotl]

Hi All!

I need to stream video files but verify that the user requesting the video has
been approved to access it.

My idea is to use some sort of signature based authentication (ie: that the
url passed to the media server has some data that the server can then look at
and verify validity to allow access to the videos).

By reading at the docs, for some reason I get the feeling this can't be done
in the Flash Media Streaming server, and that I need to use the Interactive
edition. Is this correct?

Is there other sort of built in authentication that I should use instead with
the FMS server?

I'm trying to find out so that I know for sure what product I need to buy.

Thanks in advance for your help!

[Graeme Bull]

Flash Media Interactive Server is what you are most likely looking for if you
want to do the authentication at the streaming server level. If you do this
authentication elsewhere then the streaming version is just fine.

[telpochyaotl]

Thanks for the reply Graeme! Although I could write a servlet to do the
authentication and pass the stream to the client from it, that seems to me,
defeating the purpose of having the streaming server, since i could just as
well get the files from the filesystem... (unless I'm missing other advantages)

So the Interactive server seems to be the answer...

Thanks a bunch!