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So how many implementations of widevine are around? Web standards are well past the point where anyone involved could claim the procedural, moral or intellectua

by josefx 4y ago

So how many implementations of widevine are around? Web standards are well past the point where anyone involved could claim the procedural, moral or intellectual high ground.

acdha 4y ago
The apparent inconsistency here is because you're misunderstanding what Wide Vine is: The standard is Encrypted Media Extensions: https://www.w3.org/TR/encrypted-media/ https://www.w3.org/TR/encrypted-media/ That provides a standard way for web developers to say “Our audio/video files are encrypted. Use this decoder to decrypt the bytes for playback.”. Wide Vine is a popular Content Decryption Module used by EME but it's not the only one (Apple devices use FairPlay, Microsoft ships PlayReady) and the standards process required interoperability to be demonstrated. Web SQL's standardization process halted precisely because nobody was interested in building a second implementation. If Web SQL had a second implementation, it could have been standardized just like EME was.
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