[Bug 25269] Add a container-independent initialization data type for providing a list of key IDs to createSession()

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=25269

--- Comment #5 from David Dorwin <ddorwin@google.com> ---
(In reply to Joe Steele from comment #4)
> (In reply to David Dorwin from comment #3)
> > (In reply to Joe Steele from comment #2)
> > > This assumes that the list of key IDs would be meaningful to the underlying
> > > DRM without any accompanying metadata (i.e. PSSHs). This is not generally
> > > true.
> > 
> > Maybe not in legacy implementations, but why couldn't such a DRM system add
> > support for this?
> 
> At least in the Primetime case, this is not possible. The metadata contains
> information about the license server(s) and how to communicate with them. So
> lacking this information, the list of key IDs could only be used to
> reference existing keys not to request new ones.

Do you mean URLs, etc.? Since the application handles the communication with
the license server, couldn't it know the URLs, etc.?

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Received on Monday, 7 April 2014 18:03:32 UTC