How To Disable Multimedia Streaming

[remzkee0903]

I want to impliment this on my internet cafe because my ISP is not that fast. When someone watch videos/audio it eats my bandwidth specially in online games the ping/latency gets too high. I've already block those popular streaming sites like youtube but it doenst solve my problem because there are too many streaming websites and it's very hassle to block each of one.

How can I disable video and audio streaming? Is there any software that deals w/ these problems? Please help me.. :(

[SyafaTahvBroentoeng]

Click to play:

Firefox:

http://www.howtogeek.com/123986/how-to-enable-click-to-play-plugins-in-firefox/

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/flashblock/

Chromium based:

http://www.ghacks.net/2012/07/21/configuring-chromes-click-to-play-feature/

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/flashblock/gofhjkjmkpinhpoiabjplobcaignabnl?hl=en

[remzkee0903]

Click to play:

Firefox:

http://www.howtogeek.com/123986/how-to-enable-click-to-play-plugins-in-firefox/

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/flashblock/

Chromium based:

http://www.ghacks.net/2012/07/21/configuring-chromes-click-to-play-feature/

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/flashblock/gofhjkjmkpinhpoiabjplobcaignabnl?hl=en

This is not what I'm looking for. It's only blocking annoying videos from automatically playing not disabling.

[remzkee0903]

Please anyone suggest me a software. :(

[SyafaTahvBroentoeng]

block all *.flv using adblock, then it will never shown

[remzkee0903]

block all *.flv using adblock, then it will never shown

Looks interesting.. but how's the procedure on blocking .flv and mp4 file format? Thanks for helping sir.. :wub:

[nuthut]

I want to impliment this on my internet cafe because my ISP is not that fast. When someone watch videos/audio it eats my bandwidth specially in online games the ping/latency gets too high. I've already block those popular streaming sites like youtube but it doenst solve my problem because there are too many streaming websites and it's very hassle to block each of one.

How can I disable video and audio streaming? Is there any software that deals w/ these problems? Please help me.. :(

get an opendns account. Then setup your router to use their service. under options on their website. you can tell it what to allow or not allow.

Very easy website to use and very effective.

[GRiM]

I would have thought some kind of net nanny/family filter software would be your best bet. Those will come with all kinds of filtering options like media streams etc.

[pr1xsel]

Why not start using Cfospeed? It can filter network and you can allocate more priority to have less impact on games latency.

[oinkoink08]

Disable your flash player. and html5 player..

i think its not best to disable those two because your hosting a computer shop. and computer shop comes with the service to freely enjoy the web.

what you want to do is to put up a load balancing thing so your bandwidth wont be consumed by any of your clients. either it be an qos or setting each computer to have a limited speed so it wont use other clients bandwidth.. if thats not enough then i recommend getting a higher plan from your ISP.

hope that helps.. mabuhay!! hehe

[DKT27]

Why not start using Cfospeed? It can filter network and you can allocate more priority to have less impact on games latency.

Won't do. You see, any, just any online game you play needs proper ping times, and if bandwidth is being used properly, no matter if you use cFosSpeed or having better ISP plan, the ping times will increase, no matter what.

Hence, I personally feel that disabling the streaming is probably the best way to go.

I for one is suggest what nuthut has suggested, OpenDNS. This is, however, useful if you have static IP. It's fine even on dynamic IP, but you will require OpenDNS updater installed on all the PCs.

Another one is that if you use something like Firefox on all the PCs, and can make sure that your users use Firefox too, then just disable the Flash player from Firefox extensions and disable HTML5 from about:config. This too, will need to be done on all the computers.

[LeetPirate]

I for one is suggest what nuthut has suggested, OpenDNS. This is, however, useful if you have static IP. It's fine even on dynamic IP, but you will require OpenDNS updater installed on all the PCs.

Not all, just 1. The OpenDNS updater can be installed on any 1 computer behind the same public IP address, once it sends your current public IP to your OpenDNS account it will work no matter how many computers you put on the same LAN.

Next you need to create a security policy to prevent users from being able to change the windows DNS server settings. I found a thread with how to do it so you can check it out.

You can create this policy on the server so it affects all computers on the network, or if you do not use a main server for authentication then apply the security policy to all computers used by customers.

[DKT27]

Sorry, my mistake. Installing OpenDNS Updater only on one PC is fine. :)

[remzkee0903]

@DKT27 @LeetPirate Is OpenDNS have an option to disable the streaming video & audio? and how can I install OpenDNS, Is it a software?

Thanks for all the suggestions. :wub:

[DKT27]

OpenDNS is a DNS service. On it, you have to make an account. Once you make an account, you have options to block lots of type of sites, like porn sites, streaming sites, gaming sites, and a lot others. After or before making an account, you need to assign all the computers to use OpenDNS's DNS. Then, if you have dynamic IP, you need to install OpenDNS updater in one of the PC.

[remzkee0903]

@DKT27 I will try it. Thanks for helping sir..

[stylemessiah]

As a Squid (SquidNT) user, its easy to block or restrict things using acl's, like req_mime_type

Like here: http://linuxstep.wordpress.com/step-by-step-configuration-squid-to-block-streaming-media-online/

Sure you can block things by domain or via DNS blocklists, by why not be 100% and block it by actual content instead?

[remzkee0903]

As a Squid (SquidNT) user, its easy to block or restrict things using acl's, like req_mime_type

Like here: http://linuxstep.wordpress.com/step-by-step-configuration-squid-to-block-streaming-media-online/

Sure you can block things by domain or via DNS blocklists, by why not be 100% and block it by actual content instead?

This is for Linux but thanks for helping..

[remzkee0903]

My choices now is to disable all flash and html5 and it works but I will also uninstall chrome, because chrome has flash integrated, and block the official site of flash to avoid customers from downloading it and also hassle free.

Thanks for all the suggestions. I'd apprecate it a lot.. Problem solved. :wub:

[stylemessiah]

As a Squid (SquidNT) user, its easy to block or restrict things using acl's, like req_mime_type

Like here: http://linuxstep.wordpress.com/step-by-step-configuration-squid-to-block-streaming-media-online/

Sure you can block things by domain or via DNS blocklists, by why not be 100% and block it by actual content instead?

This is for Linux but thanks for helping..

Perhaps you missed the SquidNT in my post. i run the windows port of squid, on windows 7 :)

Benefits for me (for all pc's/smart phones/other devices in my house):

* Adblocking/Malware blocking at proxy (i never see an ad)

* Caching (save data - currently im on average saving about 20% of data overall, higher on high frequency sites - like nsane)

* Dont have to run a seperate linux PC (not that i dont love linux)

[nuthut]

As a Squid (SquidNT) user, its easy to block or restrict things using acl's, like req_mime_type

Like here: http://linuxstep.wordpress.com/step-by-step-configuration-squid-to-block-streaming-media-online/

Sure you can block things by domain or via DNS blocklists, by why not be 100% and block it by actual content instead?

This is for Linux but thanks for helping..

Perhaps you missed the SquidNT in my post. i run the windows port of squid, on windows 7 :)

Benefits for me (for all pc's/smart phones/other devices in my house):

* Adblocking/Malware blocking at proxy (i never see an ad)

* Caching (save data - currently im on average saving about 20% of data overall, higher on high frequency sites - like nsane)

* Dont have to run a seperate linux PC (not that i dont love linux)

I have the same thing with OpenDNS. And I don't have to run a secondary piece of software to do it

[stylemessiah]

As a Squid (SquidNT) user, its easy to block or restrict things using acl's, like req_mime_type

Like here: http://linuxstep.wordpress.com/step-by-step-configuration-squid-to-block-streaming-media-online/

Sure you can block things by domain or via DNS blocklists, by why not be 100% and block it by actual content instead?

This is for Linux but thanks for helping..

Perhaps you missed the SquidNT in my post. i run the windows port of squid, on windows 7 :)

Benefits for me (for all pc's/smart phones/other devices in my house):

* Adblocking/Malware blocking at proxy (i never see an ad)

* Caching (save data - currently im on average saving about 20% of data overall, higher on high frequency sites - like nsane)

* Dont have to run a seperate linux PC (not that i dont love linux)

I have the same thing with OpenDNS. And I don't have to run a secondary piece of software to do it

I think youll find that Squid is just a tad (a lot) better and more flexible and customisable than OpenDNS...

Squid runs as a service and does its thing automatically, with a few clicks i can add domains and url to block and whitelist, i dont have to rely on a 3rd party to categorize things. It automatically (due to some of my customised scripts in squidguard) also updates ad servers and malware protection lists...the list goes on.

OpenDNS pales in comparison

And since when did OpenDNS start locally caching your files for you?)