Because you must. Apps, websites and services presenting high value video content use DRM technologies to prevent the viewer from making copies of the content. It can be surprising to learn that the website operator is not the one who ultimately benefits from DRM. The past twelve years of my work on media streaming projects … Continue reading DRM is not a black box, part 1: why would you use DRM
How Encrypted Media Extensions changed the industry and what happens next. The World Wide Web Consortium has recently made a decision to publish Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) as a web standard. This has drawn criticism from many directions because EME standardizes a mechanism that is highly opaque to users, has the potential to jeopardize their … Continue reading DRM in HTML: what EME has and has not done for us
Apple begins adopting media streaming industry standards. Apple announced today the support for fragmented MP4 segments in HTTP Live Streaming (HLS), taking the first step in bringing together the two competing adaptive streaming universes that exist today: HLS and DASH. The former is the premier media delivery technology on Apple products while the latter is … Continue reading Converging on CMAF
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