Playing DRM-protected video on Samsung SmartTV Platform
Samsung platform supports both PlayReady and Widevine DRMs. So when it came to enabling DRM on the platform, we had to decide to choose one. PlayReady isn’t supported on 2010 devices – so the decision became simpler. We decided to use Widevine with a goal to reach the maximum number of devices. The first hurdle in this integration came from limited documentation on Widevine integration on Samsung. Some research indicated that it is not a mere parameter change like Samsung has for some popular formats. For example, adding “|COMPONENT=HLS” to the end of a playback URL automatically tunes the Samsung […]