[FFmpeg-devel] support for reading / writing encrypted MP4 files

[Paul B Mahol]

On 11/24/15, Eran Kornblau <eran.kornblau at kaltura.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> We're thinking about adding support for MP4 files encrypted using the CENC
> scheme to ffmpeg (such as the ones supported by GPAC -
> https://gpac.wp.mines-telecom.fr/mp4box/encryption/common-encryption/)
> The motivation is to be able to transcode files without having the media
> ever resident in the clear on disk (some of our customers have
> security regulations that forbid that).
>
> We'll probably add to movenc.c a parameter of encryption-scheme, supporting
> only the value cenc for now, and another parameter
> that will contain the encryption key.
> Similarly, mov.c will be added a parameter of encryption-key to enable
> reading encrypted MP4s.
> At first phase, only AAC / AVC codecs will be supported (this change is not
> codec agnostic since for AVC for example, the contents
> of the NAL units is encrypted, while the NAL size + type are not)
>
> Before we start working on this feature, since we really prefer not to
> manage our own fork of the code, we wanted to check with you
> whether you will be willing to merge such a feature ?
> (assuming it conforms to the coding standards, naturally)

If implementation is clean and does not break what was already working why not?

>
> Thank you
>
> Eran
>
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