[FFmpeg-devel] Would a crypto file be acceptable?

[Tomas Härdin]

ons 2022-12-21 klockan 16:44 +0100 skrev Mark Gaiser:
> Hi,
> 
> The ffmpeg crypto protocol handler [1] allows one to play encrypted
> media.
> 
> The great thing here is that it allows playback of any media format
> that
> ffmpeg supports!
> Have a container format like mkv as an encrypted blob, no problem for
> the
> crypto plugin!
> 
> I'm explicitly mentioning mkv (though there's many more) here because
> that
> isn't possible in HLS/MPD. While those streaming formats handle
> encryption
> too, they are very limited in terms of supported codecs and
> containers.
> 
> Playback of encrypted data works like this:
> ffplay encrypted_file -decryption_key $AES_KEY -decryption_iv $AES_IV
> 
> While this works just fine, it's limited in use because the
> cryptography
> details have to be passed on the command line. Applications that
> might well
> support much of ffmpeg functionality can't easily hook into the
> crypto
> functionality. Take KODI for example, it allows playback of many of
> the
> formats ffmpeg supports but anything with crypto just isn't possible.
> In
> fact, anything that requires custom command line arguments isn't
> possible.

This sounds like business logic. Fix KODI instead. Much of this can
also be handled by any competent OS at the filesystem layer.

/Tomas