Delivering Video Content - Membership Software Recommendations

If you are going to have a lot of video you should really consider a full membership solution that has security features designed specifically for delivering that type of files.

My top 3 recommendations would be Login Frequency Marketing, Rapid Residual Pro, and Viral Membership System. I mention these 3 because they have specific safeguards built directly into them for safely and securely delivering audio/video content.

It is much better to go with a top of the line solution from the start than to use something now and figure out 6 months from now that it won't meet your growing needs and have to completely redo your entire site.

I really dig Profits Theme. Great setup and it's a decent theme. The membership stuff integrates beautifully with ClickBank, Paypal and Aweber too.

I don't think it's as advanced as Wishlist or aMember though. But check out the features at profitstheme.com.

I offer a basic and advanced membership option and it works fine for that.

There are several detailed threads about these type of solutions in the "product review" section of the forum. Check it out.

Personally, I used Digital Access Pass and I'm very happy with it. I have DAP integrated with products on ClickBank, stand alone using PayPal, and now with WSO Pro. Works like a charm every time.

I use PDF's, audios, and videos for my products and it works well using a membership site setup even if it's a one time payment.

I use Wordpress but you can also use your HTML pages with DAP. And I host all my media files on my Amazon S3 account.

Johnny,

I'd strongly recommend Login Frequency Marketing. I've
used it extensively for membership sites, it offers great
content management functions, including drip feeding
content, different membership levels, and has an easy to
use template system.

John

@ramone_johnny,

The combination of DigitalAccessPass (DAP) + WP + Amazon S3 + S3MediaVault.com (free with most licenses of DAP) will do the trick.

Alternatives for S3MediaVault: Easy Video Player or S3FlowShield.

With DAP, dripping videos or any other form of content also becomes really simple - you could drip, for eg., 1 video per week - or 2 videos per month, etc. And you can even use our Shortcodes to show a different video to non-members (could be a cliff-hanger where it stops abruptly at a juicy section), and the same page could be made to show a different video - the full version - after that same "visitor" has become a member.

DAP provides lots of options that allow you to be as creative as you want with your content delivery.

Anyway, regardless of which membership plugin you use, you should certainly consider hosting your videos on Amazon S3.

For what it's worth, see this:
Hosting Video & Audio On Amazon S3 vs Your Web Host -- DAP Documentation

And see this link about DAP Shortcodes:
DAP Shortcodes -- DAP Documentation

- Ravi Jayagopal

Go with: The Best Membership Script Online... Rapid Residual Pro

You won't regret it.

It is more robust than any WP solution out there. Well worth it.

I personally used all of the above and they worked fine...but I settled on Nanacast because I wanted all my products and memberships centralized in one place (with upsells ofcourse). Now, any of my customers can "jump" between my products and memberships at Nanacast on the fly using their dashboard. My support costs, as a result, have virtually disappeared. But honestly...any of the above is fine. Each person has their own unique business plan and needs.

That leads us to your more important question: how the hell do I protect my videos?

There is only 1 solution that to this day that is uncrackable. Easy Video Player 2.0.

There is no known way of downloading a streaming video from EVP. Josh Bartlett has truly nailed this solution. EVP obfuscates the HELL out of the embed code to prevent it from being downloaded with Video Download Helper. None of the other solutions offer this type protection. Sure they can secure sessions and expire after X amount of minutes via Amazon S3 and Secret keys...but the minute I hit "play" on those options, the plugin above will allow me to download it. EVP keeps the videos locked down...tight. The only way to download an EVP video is to literally press "play" and record the screen and audio while the video runs it's full length. That's pretty crazy for anyone to do considering the time investment involved.

So to answer your question...use anything to secure the members area. But use EVP if you want your videos to be kept nice and safe. EVP can even control what domains are allowed to playback the video.

Hope that helps. Good luck on the launch!

If anyone knows of other solutions, please let me know so I can test their security.

Hi To be honest any membership script should be ok. You have 2 options
1 have a script that you can load the downloads making the downloads part of the script.
2 have the downloads in another download area and have the link in the script. You have many scripts out there but purchase a php script

You have advantages both ways
1 if the download is hosted else where it will save space
2 if you have the space then use the script for everything

Pick a script that you can change to different member types being used at the same time. So you can have items going to 1 members type and not to another unless they upgrade. I do hope this helps
Robert Bridgen

Just want to add that CustomerHub offers video membership sites out-of-the-box with Infusionsoft. It's an option if you're looking to centralize your billing, access and marketing into one system. (CustomerHub was recently acquired by Infusionsoft in late 2011.)

It is very challenging to get large video files up onto the web. For all of the great improvement in bandwidth of the Internet, this still seems to remain a weakness.