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Hello, Karl,

I have a page (gallery) HERE, which contains a few MP4 videos, and their respective associated preview images.

The videos are hidden, and for each of the preview images, their links point to their respective videos:

...you can't see it in the screenshot, but the MP4 filenames are at the end of the blue link.

Now, somewhere on one of my X3 sites, for 2 or 3 videos (not videos using <video>), I discovered that I could add ?autoplay=1 after the filename to have it automatically start playing (I can't remember where I used that trick, or in what situation.

Back to this gallery, I have downloading disabled on all my X3 sites, and my question here in this post is, am I able to prevent downloading of the videos in this gallery somehow, perhaps using something similar to the ?autoplay=1 trick?

Currently there are 2 ways that users can download these videos: 1.) by selecting Download using the 3 vertical-dots in the lower-right corner of playing videos, and 2.) by right-clicking on the playing video itself.

When embedding videos using <video>, I know that I can use controlsList="nodownload" to disable the Download option to be displayed with the 3 vertical-dots.  Is there a Custom CSS that I can add to this gallery to prevent the Download option being displayed with the 3 vertical-dots?

As for the users right-clicking the videos when they are open, the download (Save video as...) option in this case is controlled by the browser, so I would imagine that there is no way that I can prevent downloading by right-clicking, but I've visisted some sites over the years that prevented me from right-clicking on pages/images/videos altogether, so just wondering if X3 can prevent that too.  No big deal if it's not possible, or too difficult to prevent.

Thanks in advance & have a great day.

Regards,
John

Thanks, Daniel, but I already have image downloads blocked on all my sites since I first started using X3 a few years ago.  It's the video files that I was inquiring about blocking.  It's fine if I can't block the video downloads, I just thought I would ask.

Thanks anyway, sir, and have a great day.

Oh, I just read your reply again.  It doesn't seem to block videos, as all the videos in that gallery are downloadable.

Interesting... we are both correct  :slight_smile:.  If I unhide my videos, then X3 will prevent right-clicking and also remove download from the 3-vertical dots.  However, in order for me to get the 5 columns of videos across the full-width of the screen, without the hassle of setting the videos up using the Content tab, I have corresponding preview images for each video that is displayed 5 columns across the screen in grid-view, and each preview image opens up its corresponding MP4 file, instead of opening up the image.

Completely understood, no problem.  I'm in the process of converting that gallery to use block-grids with video tags, which solves the problem.

Thanks for your reply, and have a great day.