Kidsafe'ing media

[BinarySpike]

I'm about to get an OpenPandora (linux mobile device) and I'm going to load some media on it. I need to prompt/password protect folders and such so that any of my music or video's with bad language or bad themes would be separate.

Basically when one of my friends opens up a media view, he or she could access all my music and funny youtube videos. However, I want to setup a basic "prompt" when they try to access video's like "David Blaine Street Magic" (hilarious youtube video with strong language) I solved this on my cellphone by having two categories, but it's frustrating to navigate and I know I can do something better with Linux.


Basically, I don't want my friends "oops"'ing when little kids are around. It has happened a couple times with Charlie the Unicorn (lol) and sometimes parents aren't happy that their kids are saying, "Gaw! they took my frickin kidney!"


What I've thought up so far is a HTML based media viewer. Basically users would browse my media via a PHP script that would list it all. Then when they clicked on a movie or song if it was tagged as not kidsafe it would ask for a password. Then they would answer something like "1234". Even something that said, "This video is not appropriate for little children are you sure you want to continue?" and then a Yes or No.

I was thinking though, that KDE, Gnome, etc. etc. might act like windows though, when you try to access something you don't own it asks for an administrators password.

[jmadero]

I'd suggest not having the media in your libraries at all and have them folder based only. Then use cryptkeeper (Download Cryptkeeper 0.9.4 for Linux - Cryptkeeper project is a FreeDesktop.org (KDE, Gnome, XFce, etc.) system tray applet that manages EncFS encrypted folders. - Softpedia) to protect the folder