GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 720780
DTCP/IP support needed when using proposed dlnasrc from issue #709455
Last modified: 2018-05-06 08:26:42 UTC
Created attachment 264580 [details] [review] gstdtcpip and lib_dtcpip A DTCP (Digital Transmission Content Protection) element is needed to interface to a private DTCP/IP decrypting library to handle encrypted (link protected) content from a DTCP/IP enabled DLNA (Digital Living Network Allicance) server. This enhancement issue holds the patches for a gstdtcpip element that is part of the dlnasrc bin. The dtcpip element will not actually perform decryption. DTCP is governed by a specification that is managed by DTLA (www.dtcp.com) and only member organizations can access the spec and produce implementations. This solution abstracts the actual DTCP stack via an API that is accessed by making function calls to runtime-loaded DSO. The intention is to provide a GStreamer element that extends decryption capability once a proprietary DTCP library implementation is referenced by the appropriate environment variables. The dtcpip element does not autoplug, but rather gets plugged in by the dlnasrc. There was controversy over this as described in issue #709455.
Why is the element not autoplugged now? The conclusion in bug #709455 was to do that AFAIU.
Ping? :) Also see bug #705991 about a similar problem, CENC. We should handle them ideally the same way.
Our team has become significantly smaller recently, so I might end up working on this. Right now I have a very large backlog though. I'm hoping to have a plan for what I'll be working on later this week.
Thanks for the patch, but this is not something we can work on (nor test). And nothing prevents you from having the element available in a 3rd party repository.