Re: Custom and extending CDM to support other DRM systems

Matt,

Le 30/01/2015 16:14, Mark Watson a écrit :
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> On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 6:58 AM, Glenn Adams <glenn@skynav.com
> <mailto:glenn@skynav.com>> wrote:
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>     On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 7:49 AM, Emmanuel Poitier
>     <emmanuel.poitier@enman.fr <mailto:emmanuel.poitier@enman.fr>> wrote:
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>         All,
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>         I am currently looking after the information on how to extend
>         the CDM to support other DRM systems, which is nowadays fixed
>         and hardcoded for each browsers (IE with PlayReady, Chrome
>         with Widevine, Safari with FairPlay). It would be nice to
>         ensure the EME spec does provide information and also how
>         browsers would support that in an agnostic manner to ensure a
>         non fragmented market where the user does want to play a
>         protected video content whatever the browser he is using.
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>     I doubt if anything has changed on this front, but this type of
>     specification was ruled out of scope for EME. EME uses the term
>     and concept "CDM" only in a notional manner, and does not specify
>     any concrete interface to such a component.
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>     It is likely that interface and any mechanism for adding/extending
>     UA supplied CDMs will remain UA specific, that is, until some
>     organization steps forward to standardize it (assuming UA vendors
>     are willing to do that... a dubitable proposition).
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> ​Yes, such an API is not really in scope of W3C, never mind just EME.
> Just as NPAPI for <object> was created by UA vendors any such
> cross-browser CDM API would need to come from the UA ​vendors. Of
> course, the open source implementations of EME have CDM APIs in their
> code, but a major point of EME was to bring DRM under UA control, so I
> would not expect UAs ever to support download of arbitrary
> user-installable CDMs - at least it's not clear to me how this could
> be done and simultaneously meet the privacy and security requirements
> of the specification. Whilst UAs can technically enforce many security
> and privacy properties through sandboxing I'm not sure they will be
> willing to host CDMs about which they have no knowledge whatsoever.
>
> …Mark

I can understand this point, though a service provider protecting their
content will evaluate DRM systems based on the UA CDM DRM support before
using EME which is at the moment quite split across browsers. Thanks
anyway for your view on this issue.

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