Title: Encode Source Link
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Encode Source Link

 *  [c05338](https://wordpress.org/support/users/c05338/)
 * (@c05338)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/encode-source-link/)
 * Hi,
 * It’s a great plugin using to project of my client selling videos after lots of
   search for watermarking a video yet I think it’s the best plugin. However 2 things
   needed and I hope if there’s a solution.
 * Can I encode the source URL of the video? If someone and especially developers
   checked the source of the page can determine the main source of the video and
   download it originally without watermark thus is there a way to encode or change
   the default source URL without loosing any of the effects?
 * Possibility of managing the watermark position and size, is possible to manage
   that?
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/video-embed-thumbnail-generator/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/video-embed-thumbnail-generator/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Kyle Gilman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kylegilman/)
 * (@kylegilman)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/encode-source-link/#post-6881754)
 * How are you watermarking the video? Are you using FFMPEG to re-encode the video
   with a watermark or are you using the image overlay option? The image overlay
   is only visible on playback and attempting to obscure the URL would only slow
   down the most casual thief since the video is downloaded to the user’s computer
   either way. I haven’t implemented any methods for encoding URLs and I don’t think
   it’s a very useful security system.
 * Changing the watermark position and size is in the [FAQ](https://wordpress.org/plugins/video-embed-thumbnail-generator/faq/).
 *  Thread Starter [c05338](https://wordpress.org/support/users/c05338/)
 * (@c05338)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/encode-source-link/#post-6881755)
 * Hi Kyle,
 * Thanks for the reply. I’m using the image overlay and not FFMPEG. Does FFMPEG
   help me watemark the video? I do know that the video thus I’m looking for a way
   to watermark the video directly so when the video is downloaded to the use’s 
   computer it will be with the watermark.
 *  [ncnguyen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ncnguyen/)
 * (@ncnguyen)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/encode-source-link/#post-6881760)
 * Hi [@c05338](https://wordpress.org/support/users/c05338/)
 * You can try hotlink protect function of your stream server, Nimble is a free 
   stream server then you can use it.
 *  Plugin Author [Kyle Gilman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kylegilman/)
 * (@kylegilman)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/encode-source-link/#post-6881775)
 * FFMPEG can re-encode your videos with a watermark, which will make it impossible
   to download the video without the watermark. But keep in mind it’s really difficult
   to setup FFMPEG on your server and most shared hosting plans won’t let you do
   it at all.

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 * Last reply from: [Kyle Gilman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kylegilman/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/encode-source-link/#post-6881775)
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