PlayReady DRM

[tft]

Hi all, I'm helping a group of people port Android to a new hardware
platform (ARM based) and we have a question regarding the playready
DRM from Microsoft. The Android that is included in most sold devices
out there (phones, pads, set-top-boxes, etc) has the playready DRM
included already. Yet we're a bit baffled as to how to include it on
our port in order to watch the likes of Netflix, etc.

I've been told that when Google ships Android in binary format it
includes the playready DRM (ie. the "secret sauce") but doesn't make
it available, is that true ? And if so I can understand its
unavailability in source format but can we have access to this "secret
sauce" (application or library) even in binary format to include into
our compilation of Android in order to have the same functionality ?

If access is unavailable, though we'd love to find out why that is,
are there binaries we can tap into in order to have this functionality
in any other form/format ? How does GoogleTV deal with this topic ?
Where can we find more details regarding this topic ?

Any help on this topic would be great - we're looking to resolve this
conundrum and would VERY much like to include PlayReady DRM.

Regards.

[Jean-Baptiste Queru]

Since you cross-posted to android-platform, let's have this discussion there.

JBQ

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