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Secure video player for Moodle

Universities and academies on Moodle can play lesson video to enrolled students only, with each student’s name on the picture and no way to download it.

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Why XAPlayer for Moodle

  • Enrolled students only

    Access is checked with Moodle’s own login and enrolment; anyone not in the course never sees the player.

  • Student name on the picture

    The Moodle user’s full name moves across the video, so any leak is traceable.

  • Every lesson encrypted

    Videos stream encrypted in three qualities; downloaders get nothing playable.

  • No load on your Moodle server

    Video streams from XAPlayer, not your Moodle server, so bandwidth and storage aren’t your problem.

Three steps to secure playback

  1. Upload the videos in XAPlayer and create a course for each Moodle course.
  2. Add the three-file local/xaplayer plugin from the tutorial.
  3. Link the watch page from your Moodle course.

Tutorials and docs

A taste of the code

The full code, where it goes and how to test it are in the tutorial.

local/xaplayer/view.php
require_once(__DIR__ . '/../../config.php');
require_login($course);   // only enrolled students

$res = (new curl())->post(XAPLAYER_API . '/embed-tokens', json_encode([
    'courseId' => $xapcourse,
    'viewer'   => ['id' => (string) $USER->id, 'name' => fullname($USER)],
]), ['CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER' => ['Authorization: Bearer ' . XAPLAYER_KEY,
                              'Content-Type: application/json']]);

Questions

The tutorial targets Moodle 4 and uses Moodle’s standard tools (require_login and curl).

No. A three-file local plugin, given in full in the tutorial, is enough.

No. They sign in to Moodle and the video plays with their own name.

On XAPlayer, encrypted. Moodle only shows the watch page.

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