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More => Old Versions => Media Center 11 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: DougHamm on December 09, 2002, 07:01:36 pm
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Gotta say, I love the new product. I can hardly wait to pair it up with the new Windows Media 9 codecs and free myself entirely from WMP.
Planning on putting together a HTPC based around this app (and WinDVD for DVD/VCD/SVCD, unless you can tell me MC supports VCD2.0 and SVCD features, like menus and chapters).
The wife and I have some...let's call them 'diversionary' films that are best played when our little guy is asleep. :) It's convenient to have them catalogued in the Media Library, but for prying eyes I would like to password protect those files from being played, at least from within MC.
Any chance you could add an 'adult' password and have media that's classified as adult genre automatically prompt for the password?
-Doug
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This would be a cool idea, especially for my (ahem!) image collection :D
What you can do for a little bit of security is just create a brand new library for that stuff. Then you have to change library from the file menu to get to it. I know it's still easy to get to it but casual browsing of the main library won't reveal your sinful existence.
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Good interim idea, V-Man. :)
-Doug
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Here's another one: Create another user on the computer (perhaps named Naugty Daddy?) and make those files available only for that user, with password. Then import them into a library for that user only. It should work. Especially if you've got Win2K or XP Pro, there's a lot of nice ways to block access to files! Just disable "easy sharing", which is total bull anyway. Easy hacking would be a better expression! 8)
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Another vote here for some sort of password protection. Like V-Man I have a diverse? ;) image collection.
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But even if MC had password protection, the files would still be sitting on your hard drive.
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I'm staying out of this one...
although I'm sure my girlfriend would appreciate some sort of password protection on some of our... ahem... more personal videos.... I mean pictures.
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Hey Matt
But even if MC had password protection, the files would still be sitting on your hard drive.
Well, you can hide Partitions, so what would it take to retrieve it ?????
Griff
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Do I get the impression that you've been thinking about this already Matt?
If you want to disguise something one of the most effective ways I've seen is the camouflage software that is used to disguise the less than legal MP3s being sought out by the power that be. Some kind of an implimentation of this apprach could lock the file behind password protection within MJ and also disguise it from casual browsing on the hard disk.
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Yeah, I know it'd still be on the hard drive. If you don't know it's there, it's not that easy to find. But at least this'd help when it's out in the open (i.e. the fist 10 files when you click on Media Library, complete with thumbnails! :) )
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why not just create a ZIP and put the music files in there with a password, and then open the music files from the ZIp.
would that not work?
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Some great ideas floating around. For the most part, I still think enabling a content password based on some media tag would be the nicest solution. The best intermin solution is to make a separate library.
-Doug