Adobe Support for Encrypted Media Extensions

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On Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:36:24 GMT
In Adobe Support for Encrypted Media Extensions
At http://blogs.adobe.com/standards/2013/06/19/adobe-support-for-encrypted-media-extensions/

> Adobe Support for Encrypted Media Extensions
> 
> Adobe is actively supporting the development of 
> the Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) to the HTML5 
> standard. We are working on implementations of the 
> EME and its companion specification, MSE (Media 
> Source Extensions) and have been regular 
> participants in the task force working sessions 
> and email discussions.
> 
> HTML has grown to include many capabilities which 
> were previously only provided by browser plugins 
> like Adobe Flash. As a result, more developers are 
> choosing to build applications using Open Web 
> technologies. However, there are applications that 
> are not possible to build today without extending 
> the browsers capabilities. The inclusion of the 
> <video> tag in particular has been a huge step 
> forward, but that capability is limited to playing 
> unprotected videos. To enable the playing of 
> protected videos like feature-length Hollywood 
> films, developers are forced to rely on plugins or 
> non-standard browser extensions. As Adobe supports 
> Open Web development more and more, we need to 
> find a way to provide this capability to 
> developers. I believe the EME specification will 
> help us provide this capability for customers 
> using our Adobe Primetime products.
> 
> This EME specification provides benefits to 
> multiple parties. Content providers will benefit 
> from more standardization of the formats used for 
> delivering protected audio and video, lowering 
> their cost for delivering the content. Developers 
> will benefit from easier and faster cross-platform 
> development by leveraging the common Web stack 
> along with the EME APIs. End users will benefit 
> from being able to stay within the familiar 
> browser environment instead of being forced out to 
> standalone proprietary applications. End users may 
> also benefit from increased content options, due 
> to the lower costs to content providers I 
> mentioned above. Everyone will benefit from the 
> reduced API surface area (as compared to existing 
> plugin based solutions) this exposes to malicious 
> code on the web.
> 
> The EME working group has published its First 
> Public Working Draft. We are working with the 
> group to address the issues that have been raised 
> so far and constructive comments are welcome. 
> Adobe is working on our own implementations of EME 
> and once ready, we will make them as widely 
> available as possible. Adobe’s goal is to enable 
> more content to flow to more people on more 
> platforms. I believe strongly that this effort 
> will help us towards achieving that goal.
> 
> Joe Steele
> Sr. Computer Scientist
> Runtime Engineering
> 

-- 
Karl Dubost
http://www.la-grange.net/karl/

Received on Wednesday, 19 June 2013 09:38:07 UTC