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Is this the end of ‘cenc’? An overview of DRM/Codec support in 2021

Stefan Pham March 3, 2021 CENC, CMAF, DRM, HLS, MPEG-DASH, Playready, Widevine

Short answer: No, it’s ‘cbcs’ time. If you would like to understand this better, keep on reading. The Common Encryption standard ISO/IEC 23001-7 is the enabler for multi-DRM-protected DASH/HLS streams. It is not quite “common encryption” as the name suggest,…

CENC, dash, DRM

dash.js: License acquisition for multiple EME versions

Daniel Silhavy June 20, 2019 dash.js, DRM, Encrypted Media Extensions, Media Source Extensions, MPEG-DASH, Playready, Widevine

HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) and Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (MPEG-DASH) are the two main formats for adaptive streaming. While HLS is natively supported on most of its target platforms (iOS and MacOSX), we need external players for MPEG-DASH. For…