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Encrypted Media Extensions (EME)

Category

Multimedia

Type

New or changed feature

Status

Enabled by default (Chrome 42)

Intent stage

None

Summary

Defines a common API that may be used to discover, select and interact with Digital Rights Management systems for use with HTMLMediaElement.

Standards & signals

• Specification: https://w3c.github.io/encrypted-media/
• Firefox: Shipped/Shipping
• Safari: Shipped/Shipping
• Web developers: Mixed signals
• Tracking bug: http://crbug.com/241496

Docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/EncryptedMediaExtensions_API

Samples: https://shaka-player-demo.appspot.com/

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