Re: Netflix HTML5 player in IE 11 on Windows 8.1 from Alastair Campbell on 2013-06-28 (public-restrictedmedia@w3.org from June 2013)

From: Alastair Campbell <alastc@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 15:01:52 +0100
To: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@hsivonen.fi>
Cc: Nikos Roussos <comzeradd@mozilla-community.org>, public-restrictedmedia@w3.org
Message-ID: <CAC5+KCESjDL3i2_O3t8T-GuGvgu4B4aomZ9r+hef=jBDpwh1uQ@mail.gmail.com>

Henri Sivonen:
> My point was that its incorrect to suggest that the Windows system
> services Firefox currently uses would be analogous to Windows 8.1
> system PlayReady, since the services currently used to implement
> Web-exposed features have Free Software substitutes on Free Software
> systems (even if possibly with differing performance characteristics).

Ok, MS PlayReady is one example, but presumably there will be others?

If MS provided PlayReady through EME, and Apple provided
PlayBiggerBetterFaster (a made up) CDM through EME, and Ubuntu made a
deal with someone to port a (non-OS) CDM, would Firefox then use EME?

Or, (implied by your last sentence) would Firefox not use EME because
the CDMs cannot be implemented on OS Software?

-Alastair

Received on Friday, 28 June 2013 14:02:20 UTC