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Video playback is not hard. If you are any good at UI/UX, you can make a great video player with HTML5. DRM is hard (it's really an impossible pipe dream, but
by thomastjeffery 9y ago
Video playback is not hard. If you are any good at UI/UX, you can make a great video player with HTML5.
DRM is hard (it's really an impossible pipe dream, but that's another conversation). Getting any sort of "DRM" to work in a browser with a good UI/UX is difficult, and most of the huge media providers (HBO, Vudu, etc.) are still using outdated, buggy, sluggish flash-based methods. The only decent video player using "DRM" that I know of is Netflix, which still has arbitrary limitations, like 720p video.
- mulmen 9y agoThe problem is most people aren't good at UI/UX but you have a good point. Does Reddit care about DRM in their videos? What about the CDN component? What about encoding support?
- thomastjeffery 9y agoI would assume Reddit would not want any DRM. I can't speak to what they would use for a CDN. Decoding support in HTML5 is pretty good (except for HEVC). The only things that Reddit would need to care about are file size and audio. It seems likely that Reddit would reject audio, or categorize videos that have it, so it could give fair warning.