DRM-X 5.0 Media Packager Tutorial

Log in to Your DRM-X 5.0 Account

Launch the DRM-X 5.0 Media Encryption Tool and sign in with your DRM-X 5.0 administrator account and Web Service authentication information.

After a successful login, the tool automatically loads the License Profiles already created in your account.

Select a License Profile

At the top of the tool, use the "Select a License Profile" drop-down list to choose the License Profile you want to use for this encryption task.

A License Profile defines the license and rights policy for the protected content. Before encryption, create the corresponding License Profile in the DRM-X 5.0 administration portal.

For example, if a course contains 30 videos and they all use the same DRM licensing rules, they can all be encrypted with the same License Profile, so you do not need to create a separate License Profile for every video.

Set the Output Folder

Click "Browse" to choose where the encrypted files will be saved.

If you want the encrypted files to be saved in the same folder as the source files, you can also click "Use Source Folder".

Source file:
lesson01.mp4

Encrypted file:
lesson01_P.mp4

DRM-X does not modify the original files. For production course content, we recommend using a separate output folder so the encrypted files can be easily uploaded to a web server, object storage, or CDN.

Add Files or Folders

You can drag files directly into the tool, or click "Add Files" or "Add Folder".

To encrypt an entire course, we recommend dragging the whole course folder directly into the tool.

Course-A
├── Lesson-01.mp4
├── Lesson-02.mp4
├── Lesson-03.mp4
├── Lesson-04.mp4
├── Audio-01.mp3
└── Course-Notes.pdf

The tool automatically adds supported video, audio, and PDF files, while unsupported file types are skipped automatically.

Set the Number of Concurrent Tasks

The DRM-X 5.0 Media Encryption Tool can process multiple files at the same time. Use the "Concurrent Tasks" setting to control how many encryption tasks run simultaneously.

On a typical computer, start with the default setting. If the computer has a faster CPU and SSD storage, you can increase the number of concurrent tasks.

Encryption speed is affected not only by CPU performance, but also by the read speed of the source files and the write speed of the encrypted output files. For higher encryption throughput, we recommend placing the input files and output folder on different physical disks, which can reduce the performance bottleneck caused by reading and writing on the same disk at the same time.

Start Encryption

After confirming the License Profile, output folder, file list, and number of concurrent tasks, click "Start Encryption".

The tool automatically processes all pending files in the list, and you can monitor the status of each file in real time.

If some files fail to encrypt, use the "Retry Failed Items" to process them again.