Media Player playing DRM content

This topic describes how to play DRM-protected content through Encrypted Media Extension (EME) API of W3C specification. DRM-protected content is supported only for adaptive streaming contents (HLS and DASH). Note: The DRM-protected content playback is supported on the Fire TV Stick and on the Vega Virtual Device (DRM L3 only) for Mac M-series machines. If you try to run DRM content on the Vega Virtual Device on other machine configurations, the following error is displayed in the logs.

"Shaka Error DRM.FAILED_TO_CREATE_CDM"

For information about playing content, see Play adaptive content (HLS/DASH) with Shaka Player.

Prerequisites

Set up your app to use the W3C Media Player. For more information, see Media Player Setup. To integrate with the Fire TV device:

For DRM protected content, set secure to true, set drm_scheme to com.microsoft.playready: or com.widevine.alpha schemes and set drm_license_uri such that it points to license servers.

const content =
{
    secure: "true", // true : Use Secure Video Buffers. false: Use Unsecure Video Buffers.
    uri: "https://storage.googleapis.com/wvmedia/cenc/h264/tears/tears.mpd",
    drm_scheme: "com.widevine.alpha", // com.microsoft.playready, com.widevine.alpha
    drm_license_uri: "https://proxy.uat.widevine.com/proxy?provider=widevine_test", // DRM License acquisition server URL : needed only if the content is DRM protected
},

Open your manifest.toml file and add the following permissions.

[wants]

[[wants.service]]
id = "com.amazon.drm.key" # Required for DRM video playback

[[wants.service]]
id = "com.amazon.drm.crypto" # Required for DRM video playback

[[needs.privilege]]
id = "com.amazon.privilege.security.file-sharing" # Required for DRM video playback

Known issues

DRM playback and fast refresh There is a known issue with fast refresh and DRM playback. When testing DRM playback, disable fast refresh. Media Player API

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