- From: Philip Jägenstedt <philipj@opera.com>
- Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 19:45:14 +0700
- To: Hans Schmucker <hansschmucker@gmail.com>
- Cc: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@hsivonen.fi>, "public-html-media@w3.org" <public-html-media@w3.org>
On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 6:32 PM, Hans Schmucker <hansschmucker@gmail.com> wrote: > Ah, thank you Henri, > > I wasn't aware that Netflix was already deploying their solution (we don't > have it in Germany). So, we can conclude that describing a plugin-like > behavior is unnecessary, outside the scope of the spec and not in line with > current behavior. > > I think that makes it very clear: The paragraphs suggesting this kind of > behavior are unnecessary and dangerous (as was my suggestion... I did assume > the worst, much worse than what had actually happened). > > In summary, they should be removed and at best be replaced with a note > saying that usage of a CDM does not change the behavior of the video element > in any way. Correct? Probably not entirely correct, since a video element can normally have its pixels drawn to a canvas and its audio samples fed into the Web Audio API. I haven't checked, but I'd be surprised if either of these are possible using EME... Philip
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