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If you have a proxy server, you can restrict video streaming access using
access control list or using contents filtering program such as squidGuard,
DansGuardian, etc. But there are many websites with embedded video that
has not been filtered yet. Mikrotik can help you overcome this problem and
restrict access to embedded streaming video with ease.
Restrict bandwidth usage for embedded video streaming
You can use the following script to limit bandwidth usage for sites that
embedding video streaming such YouTube, Metacafe, Tube8, etc. Im
personally already tested this script and works fine.
The scenario is using mikrotik built-in Layer7 Protocol to detects embedded
video streaming on any websites, marking the data packets, then defining
bandwidth limit using Simple Queue rule.
First, add a video content filter at Layer7 protocol:
add name=httpvideo regexp="http/(0.9|1.0|1.1)[\\x09-\\x0d ][1-5][0-9][0-9][\\x09-\\x0d -~]*(content-type:
video)"
/ip firewall layer7-protocol add name=http-video regexp="http/(0.9|1.0|1.1)
[x09-x0d ][1-5][0-9][0-9][x09-x0d -~]*(content-type: video)"
Then finally, add new rule in simple queue to limit bandwidth usage for httpvideo packets (in this example, download for embedded video streaming
was capped at 64kbps, you can define this to suite your needs).
/queue simple add max-limit=0/64000 name=http-video packet-marks=http-video
Just give a try : open any video on Youtube, and see what happens. All
videos should not able to loaded properly since the data packets is dropped
at mikrotik firewall.