How to seek backward inside a stream where DRM key rotation is in place.

[tibor-leo-safar-accedo]

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Hi,
The scenario of the issue is the following. We are using ExoPlayer version 2.10.8
It is given a Live DASH stream with DRM key rotation, there is a new DRM key in every 5 minute.
We do use the OfflineLicenseHelper class for DRM key acquisition, storing the key Id's in order to reuse them between playback sessions.
Playing back the head of the stream is OK, we can detect, acquire new license and the playback continues with minimal UI glitches.
The window of the live stream is quite big, 4 hours, in order to provide some extra features for our users like instant restart of a program (what can fit into te live window).
The issue comes when we try to seek back in the stream behind any of DRM key rotation events.
An example

• we are now at 12:08 trying to instant restart a program.
• the program we want to seek back have started at 12:00
• at 12:05 there was a DRM key rotation.
• when seeking back inside the stream to 12:00, playback fails with MediaCodec$CryptoException: Crypto key not available
• requesting a new DRM key using the OfflineLicenseHelper will provide a valid key, but for the head, and playback will be still impossible because of the key mismatch.

We have tried this without using OfflineLicenseHelper, letting ExoPlayer to handle everything, of course with the same result.

Question:

• Is it possible (if yes how?) to acquire a valid DRM key for a position back in time, where the DRM key was different then the one used for the Live edge (head) of the stream?

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Link to test content

Issue #4133 and #3561 seems to be related somehow.
Unfortunately there is no publicly available test content.
I think the issue can be reproduced with any of the streams with DRM key rotation when seeking back in stream to any moent before a DRM key change event. (not aware of any such publicly available stream)

Would really appreciate for some help on this topic.

[AquilesCanta]

Is it possible (if yes how?) to acquire a valid DRM key for a position back in time, where the DRM key was different then the one used for the Live edge (head) of the stream?

Yes. ExoPlayer should do that for you without any special handling. The only thing you should make sure is that you are using multiSession.

I think the issue can be reproduced with any of the streams with DRM key rotation when seeking back in stream to any moent before a DRM key change event. (not aware of any such publicly available stream)

I have tested this with internal test streams and it works well.

I think the only way we can assist here is that you provide repro steps in the demo app. This will require you to send us a sample stream, as explained in the issue template.

[tibor-leo-safar-accedo]

Hi Santiago! Thank you very much for your response. I think a quite important thing was not considered in your response, what was listed between the lines, we try to use the OfflineLicenseHelper class to acquire licenses, store them, then reuse them in case it is needed. This way of implementation can lift some pressure from the DRM server regarding the number of hits. In our case we would need to put together such a DrmInitData object what can exactly point to the data segment for what segment we would like to acquire the DRM license. For the moment the DrmInitData uses only the main manifest of the stream, therefore in all cases we will have a valid DRM key only for the head of the stream. My question would be to you if it would be possible to use the OfflineLicenseHelper in such way to achieve our goal. Thank you, Tibor Leo Safar.

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On 2020. Oct 9., at 15:43, Santiago Seifert ***@***.***> wrote: Is it possible (if yes how?) to acquire a valid DRM key for a position back in time, where the DRM key was different then the one used for the Live edge (head) of the stream? Yes. ExoPlayer should do that for you without any special handling. The only thing you should make sure is that you are using multiSession <https://exoplayer.dev/doc/reference/com/google/android/exoplayer2/drm/DefaultDrmSessionManager.Builder.html#setMultiSession-boolean->. I think the issue can be reproduced with any of the streams with DRM key rotation when seeking back in stream to any moent before a DRM key change event. (not aware of any such publicly available stream) I have tested this with internal test streams and it works well. I think the only way we can assist here is that you provide repro steps in the demo app. This will require you to send us a sample stream, as explained in the issue template <https:/google/ExoPlayer/blob/release-v2/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/question.md>. — You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#8034 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https:/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ACSO3TGVZXRA2KXQMSQGT5TSJ4HO5ANCNFSM4SBWF2XQ>.

[ojw28]

OfflineLicenseHelper is really intended for VOD download use cases. Trying to use it for streaming with key rotation is not something we support. It sounds like a very fragile approach.

Note that, depending on how much key reuse you need, you may find DefaultDrmSessionManager.Builder.setSessionKeepaliveMs useful.