Support for HTML5 Premium Video (Netflix & YouTube without plugins)

[alexkadis]

First, just wanted to say this app is fantastic! Thank you for creating it.

I was researching to see why Safari is able to go HTML5 video with Encrypted Media Extensions (EME), but Helium isn't — relegating us to installing Silverlight and Flash for Netflix and YouTube respectively.

It seems like there may be a way to make a UIWebView able to use EME. I found two resources, this Apple technote, and this blog article with example code.

The passage that makes me think this might be possible:

UIWebView does not provide any way for an app to customize its HTTPS server trust evaluations (r. 10131336) . You can work around this limitation using an NSURLProtocol subclass, as illustrated by Sample Code 'CustomHTTPProtocol'.

Thanks!

[JadenGeller]

Nice!! That seems like it'll be super useful! I'm catching up on schoolwork right now, but once finished, this'll be on the top of my priority list. Thanks!

[lologhi]

Good news !

[emilstahl]

+1 @lologhi

[vincentorback]

Sweet! 👍