How to Manage Geo Restriction for Your Live Streams

Product: Muvi Live

Introduction

You can enable or disable geo-restrictions in Muvi Live to precisely control who can access your live streaming content. This feature allows you to block or allow access to your live streams based on the geographic location of your viewers. When a live stream is restricted for a specific country, state, or city, users accessing the stream from those regions will be unable to view it, ensuring that your content is only available in the intended locations.

Muvi provides flexibility by allowing you to apply geo-restrictions at multiple levels—country, state, and city—depending on your distribution strategy or licensing requirements. For more granular control, you can create multiple geo-block categories and assign them to different live streams.

Enable Geo Restriction

First, you need to enable the ‘Geo Restriction’ feature for your live stream.

To enable ‘Geo Restriction’, click on the "Security” menu in the Dashboard.
Under "Security", click on the "Geo Block" tab.
Enable "Geo Restrictions".
Under "Geo Restriction Level", select Geo Restriction levels, i.e., “Country”, “State”, “City”.
If you select “Country Level” blocking, you can choose different countries to block (e.g., India, Japan, China, etc.).
By selecting the “State Level” blocking option, you can geo-block different states in a specific Country (e.g., within India, you can block Maharashtra, Karnataka, Gujarat, Odisha, etc.).
If you select “City Level” Geo-block, you can block some specific cities inside a state (e.g., inside Maharashtra, you can block Mumbai, Pune, Nagpur, Thane, etc.).
After selecting your options, click on “Save” to save the settings.

Creating Geo-Block Categories

You can create multiple Geo-Block categories by adding multiple countries in separate categories. For example, you can add all the Asian countries like India, Japan, China, Singapore, etc., in a category, add all the European countries like England, France, Germany in another category, and so on. You can then apply a Geo-Block category to a specific live stream and block that live stream for a group of countries. You can also select different levels, like country level, state level, and city level, to create the Geo-block categories.

To create a Geo-Block category, click on the "Security” menu in the Dashboard.
Under "Security", click on the "Geo Block" tab.
Select “Create Geo Block Categories”.
Click on “Add New Geo-Block Category”.
Type the “Category Name” (e.g., Block for India, Block for Australia, Block for Europe, etc.).
Search for the country in the search bar that you want to Geo-Block or scroll down and find the country from the list, and select the country.
You can select multiple countries for the category.
You can even select State(s) or City(s) under a specific country.
Click on “Save”. Repeat to create multiple categories.
You can also “Edit” or “Delete” the Geo-Block categories.

How to Geo-Block Live Streams

After creating the Geo-Block categories, you can block any specific live stream for a specific Country/State/City. You can add Geo-Block while creating a new live stream, or you can add it to an existing live stream in the “Content Library”.

To block a live stream, navigate to “Content Management” -->” Content Library”.
Click on the "Edit Icon" below the livestream you want to Geo-Block.
In the "Content Edit Page", click on the "Security" tab.
Select the “Geo-Block Category” from the drop-down.
You can select multiple categories for the livestream.
Click on “Save”.
Once the livestream is Geo-Blocked, it will not be visible to end-users in the country(s) added to the Geo-Block category.
To remove the Geo-Block for the channel, uncheck the Geo-Block Category(s) and click on "Save”.

Note: The above method is for the existing live stream in the Content Library. You can also enable this option from the beginning while creating a new live stream.

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