Re: [EME] reuse of session

On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 10:14 PM, Maruyama, Shinya <
Shinya.Maruyama@jp.sony.com> wrote:

>  As to the reuse of session by promise, would it be better that CDM
> determines whether to create a new media key session?
>

Where possible, it is better to keep logic in the user agent. This helps
ensure more consistent behavior, enables reuse and OSS implementation, and
is more consistent with other specs.

>
>
> According to createSession algorithm step 6-1, a user agent determines it
> by checking *list of active session Initialization Data*.
>
> As the user agent is not aware of the DRM specific part of initData
> (except for container-independent initData *Bug 25269*<https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=25269>),
> the user agent can compare the entire of initData but it is impossible to
> look into the content of initData to see if requesting keyIds are available
> in active sessions.
>

The current text is intentionally comparing the raw initData and not the
contents. In the case of CENC, this ensures the same number of sessions
will be created regardless of which PSSH box (or key system) is used.

The current text is *not* intended to prevent all duplicate sessions - it's
intended to prevent potentially hundreds of sessions from being created for
the same initData during adaptive streaming, etc. and reduce the overall
amount of work the application must do. Checking whether the CDM already
has the appropriate keys would not address all such scenarios and could
lead to inconsistent behavior. Specifically, there will often be two
needkey events when playback starts as the audio and video streams are
parsed. At that point, the CDM does not have any keys, and it can't know
whether the first session that gets created will return a key for the
second initData.

>  .
>
> This means, an application suffers unnecessary creating media key sessions
> as follows, for instance;
>
>
>
> 1. Prefetch license(s) by media key session initiated by
> container-independent initData including superset keyIds; e.g. KIDs for
> audio and video tracks, for a subsequent media presentation (at MPD fetch
> time)
>
> 2. When each initialization Data contains a pssh, it causes unnecessary
> media key session because the cenc-formatted initData is not identical to
> the preceding initData at step1; i.e. container-independent pssh, pssh for
> audio and pssh for video are all distinct.
>

Do I understand correctly that #1 uses initData from a manifest while #2
uses data from needkey events? If so, what is the use case? I expect that
such an application would be rare and would need to either ensure the
initData is consistent or handle session creation differently.

>
>
> Key rotation may be a another usecase. Reusing a media key session by just
> updating available keys within the session maybe provide some benefit but
> it is not possible because the pssh that requires new key(s) is most
> probably distinct from other active initData.
>

initData cannot be added to an existing session, so key rotation using the
same session would need to be handled in some other way. Thus, step 6-1
does not affect this scenario.

>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Shinya
>