On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 4:07 AM, Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>wrote: > On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 8:41 PM, Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi> wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 11:57 PM, Mark Watson <watsonm@netflix.com> > wrote: > >> The underlying content protection systems are things like PlayReady > (from > >> Microsoft), Widevine (from Google) and Marlin. Adobe have something, > but I > >> don't know what they call it. > > > > As a co-proposer, does Microsoft plan to integrate PlayReady into IE? > > As a co-proposer, does Google plan to integrate Widevine into Chrome? > > Do the co-proposers plan to make their CDMs available to other > > browsers? Do the co-proposers plan to provide APIs that'd allow adding > > other CDMs to their browsers? > > I'm confused. I thought the whole idea of the proposal was to just > provide an API for adding CDMs into browsers such that when you have > the library installed on your computer, any browser is able to make > use of it, no matter if it's Google's Widevine library or Microsoft's > PlayReady - e.g. Firefox would be able to make use of these and any > other CDM library. There would be no need to implement something > additional into browsers. If this is false, somebody better clarify > how else it is supposed to work. > Yes, that is indeed the idea. But Henri keeps wanting to drill down into the CDMs themselves, which is really out of scope for the proposal.Received on Friday, 2 March 2012 18:15:01 UTC
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