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

From: Andreas Kuckartz <A.Kuckartz@ping.de>
Date: 28 Jun 2013 18:42:40 +0200
To: "Alastair Campbell" <alastc@gmail.com>
Cc: "Henri Sivonen" <hsivonen@hsivonen.fi>, "Nikos Roussos" <comzeradd@mozilla-community.org>, public-restrictedmedia@w3.org
Message-ID: <51CDBD00.9010405@ping.de>

Alastair Campbell:
> 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?

Thanks for these questions because they demonstrate the evilness of
EME. With EME the W3C now helps to fraction the "Open Web Platform".

Cheers,
Andreas

Received on Friday, 28 June 2013 18:16:23 UTC