Widevine support for Verified Media Path (VMP)

[davidjamesherzog]

Has there been any discussion to support Verified Media Path (VMP) going forward for Widevine in Chrome 59+?

https://www.widevine.com/product_news.html - (UPDATE - CHROME 59 AND SERVICE CERTIFICATES)

[bbert]

As explained in the Widevine product new, Widevine CDM will require for service certificate to enable VMP.
The consequence is that the CDM will send a service certificate request before each license request.
If you want to prevent from this service certificate request, the solution consists in providing the service certificate proactively to the player, before playing the stream.
We will submit a PR to enable providing the service certificate when setting protection data to the player:

mediaPlayer.setProtectionData({
    "com.widevine.alpha": {
        "serverURL": "<licenser_server_url>",
        "serverCertificate": "<server_certificate_in_ base64>",
        ...
    }
});

[bbert]

See PR #1983

[epiclabsDASH]

Covered in #1983. @davidjamesherzog, please, feel free to reopen this in case you think there is something pending regarding this.

Thanks