Playback of Smooth Streaming content with PlayReady

[FedeOmoto]

Hi!

At our company we're developing a VoD app for Philips Smart TVs and we're having problems while trying to play Smooth Streaming + PlayReady content.
In the HTML5 video tag, if we set the src attribute to a manifest file with Smooth Streaming content (WHITHOUT PlayReady) it's played OK, but if the Manifest file specifies content with PlayReady the content is not played.

Out Philips TV is a 6000 model from this year, I understand that it has support for PlayReady.

Is there something special we've to do to play Smooth Streaming content with PlayReady?

Thank you in advance,

Federico Omoto

[Support_STA]

Moved from SDK section to App development.

If you're developing for STA specification, please check if you're using the correct MIME value for the type attribute for the

[FedeOmoto]

Thank you for the quick answer.
Yes, we're developing for STA specification, also, as I already said we're able to play Smooth Streaming content but NOT Smooth Streaming with PlayReady.

The video tag we're using is:



Do we need to use the oipfDrmAgent object for PlayReady? Reading the documentation it should be handled transparently by the html 5 video object right?

Thanks,
Federico Omoto

[Support_STA]

Correct, the use of the oipfDrmAgent object (for PlayReady) is optional. The most standard way to playback is indeed very simple:
- Use

[mautilus]

Hi Federico,

Did you succeed? We have similar problems with SmoothStreaming/PlayReady on latest Toshiba CloudTV and Philips NetTV devices. The encryption, encoding and license acquisition should be configured properly since we are able to playback the content on Windows Phone 8, Windows 8 and Samsung Smart TV devices.

We are working on finding where the problems could be so far we see that not all TVs lines from different manufacturers are supporting the DRM correctly and sometimes there are firmware issues But until now we were not able to identify the problem.

The big issue is that instead of providing meaningful log files, the TV in case of problem just hangs and sometimes we need to remove the power plug to make it working again or it needs factory reset...

The STA organization should make the providing the log files and easy access to them mandatory requirement.

BR
STeN

[FedeOmoto]

Hi mautilus,

Yes, we were able to solve the problem. It turns out that our license servers needed some custom data, and sending that solved the problem
That's for LG, but now we can't play PlayReady + Smooth Streaming content on Philips Smart TVs (same code). It works OK for SS content without DRM.
I'll post in another thread to see if someone has a clue...

Regards,
Federico Omoto

[mautilus]

Hi Federico,

On LG the PlayReady works fine for us as well. On Philips w have never tried that as there we are using Widevine - but we have problems with models based on MTK board.

We have still problems on Toshiba...

STeN