Watermarking video on the fly

Wowza Streaming Engine
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Hello everyone. I want to protect the video content with company stamp. So I want to place a watermark (logo or text) on the video.

What is the possible solution?

Can watermarking on the fly is possible? If not possible, is there any java library can do this?

thx

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What are you trying to watermark. Is it a live video feed or pre-encoded video files?

Charlie

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I don’t see watermark or compositing functionality in On2 Flix Pro and Macromedia/Adobe Video Encoder. I did read this weekend in the latest release of Premiere Pro C3 you can directly output Flash video. If this is the case then you could easily use Premiere Pro CS3 to watermark the video.

I don’t know of any way to do this on the fly, server-side. It would require that the video be decoded and re-encoded on the server. This is very expensive in both memory and CPU.

Charlie

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If you are worried that folks are going to steal your content using tools like Replay Media Catcher, then you might want to take a look at our new SecureToken functionality in Wowza Pro 1.2. Take a look at the Content Protection section of the Client Side Scripting chapter of the User’s Guide.

Charlie

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It’s pre-encoded video files.

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I’m already use the SecureToken. But watermarking is such a nice alternative if we want to distribute the video (can be downloaded).

Okay, thx alot charlie.

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I use VideoCharge Studio!