YouTube now defaults to HTML5 video

Re:YouTube now defaults to HTML5 video by walterbell on Wednesday January 28, 2015 @11:36AM (#8960820)

Wouldn't the DRM spec have to explicitly permit MSE buffering? If Javascript could buffer the stream and send it to any destination other than a DRM-approved output device, that would defeat the DRM.

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Re:YouTube now defaults to HTML5 video by bzbarsky on Wednesday January 28, 2015 @12:29PM (#8961180)

The way EME is designed, the browser is responsible for fetching the data from the network and passing it to the DRM module. This is no different with MSE, as far as I can tell; what you buffer up is the encrypted data, then pass it on to the DRM stuff.

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Re:YouTube now defaults to HTML5 video by walterbell on Wednesday January 28, 2015 @06:27PM (#8963227)

Thanks, I'll run a test to see if it's possible to request an encrypted stream by timecode, then buffer it for composition with another encrypted stream.

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