Encrypted Media Extensions (EME)

Defines a common API that may be used to discover, select and interact with Digital Rights Management systems for use with HTMLMediaElement.

Comments

Historical note: A prefixed API shipped in Chrome 26 for desktop and Chrome 32 for Android (http://crbug.com/173059). It was disabled on all platforms in Chrome 47 and removed in Chrome 50.

Demo

• https://shaka-player-demo.appspot.com/

Documentation

• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/EncryptedMediaExtensions_API

Specification

Working draft or equivalent

Status in Chromium

Blink components: Blink>Media

Enabled by default (tracking bug) in:

• Chrome for desktop release 42
• Chrome for Android release 42
• Android WebView release 43

Consensus & Standardization

• Firefox: Shipped
• Edge: Shipped
• Safari: Shipped
• Web Developers: Mixed signals

Owners

• xhwang@chromium.org
• hbengali@chromium.org

Last updated on 2017-06-16