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"...and we've just started using this technology on the Samsung ARM-Based Chromebook. Our player on this Chromebook device uses the Media Source Extensions and

"...and we've just started using this technology on the Samsung ARM-Based Chromebook. Our player on this Chromebook device uses the Media Source Extensions and Encrypted Media Extensions to adaptively stream protected content." I'm not an expert on Chrome OS internals but it seems to me that being a GNU/Linux derivative with an X Server, it's not much of a jump to say the Linux version is being developed and tested first. Edit to clarify: I'm guessing the development is being done on a Linux machine rather than directly on a Chromebook.

unholyalliance 14y ago
chromebook has hardware based drm.
tmzt 14y ago
ChromeOS does not use X, though X can run on the devices. Chromium is actually providing it's own compositor and windowing system. The plugin they are getting rid of the is the Chrome-only Pepper API based plugin that for some reason is unavailable on the current Samsung ARM Chromebook.
- sharth 14y ago
  The blob that you compile against the pepper api is native code. So they would need to recompile the blob for ARM as well as x86. Whether or not this is actually hard for their codebase, I have no idea.
- comex 14y ago
  This is incorrect: the default UI runs on X.