Re: Oppose DRM ! Re: CfC: to publish Encrypted Media Extensions specification as a First Public Working Draft (FPWD)

On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 12:29 PM, Glenn Adams <glenn@skynav.com> wrote:

> Have the authors of HTMLVideoElement even tried to document any of the
> black boxes known as video decoders? No they haven't. They didn't for a
> good reason.


We didn't need to, because the media formats people were using were already
well documented/standardized. For media formats, that information is all
you need for an iinteroperable implementation; there is no need to
integrate a particular piece of code or obtain secret keys. None of this is
currently true for CDMs.

When are folks going to stop standing on this red herring about plug-ins?
> There are dozens of black box APIs in use in the OWP specifications and
> more are being introduced every day it seems. For example, one of the
> opponents of EME in this this thread whom you quote (roc), specifies the
> use of a media stream processor in [1], obtained via
> MediaStream.createProcessor(), which is no different than EME in terms of
> its implied need of either a plug-in or an extensible architectural
> component.


a) That proposal never even made it to first draft. Your link just points
to a snapshot of work-in-progress.
b) My intent was that all built-in stream processors would be properly
specified.
c) Using a string there was a mistake that I would have rectified if the
proposal had progressed. I made my position on this quite clear a while
ago: http://robert.ocallahan.org/2012/05/canvas-getcontext-mistake.html,
especially the last paragraph.

Rob
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