Digital Rights Management

Protect Your Copyrighted Assets

Vantage Gateway takes the sting out of DRM file processing. By linking your ABR workflow to our powerful processing service, you can package your VOD files with the industry’s leading DRM platforms — or a proprietary system — without adding unnecessary complexity and cost to your operation. 

 

 Highlights

  • Video asset protection across the widest range of devices, including mobile, desktop, IPTV and OTT

  • Support for the most common DRM platforms, including Google Widevine, Apple Fairplay, Microsoft PlayReady

  • Integration with leading third-party KMS providers such CPIX

  • Speed to market with fully protected VOD content

Complete Protection for HLS and DASH Streams

DRM encryption is essential for combating the piracy, copying and converting of your valuable digital media. But DRM software is quite fragmented in the ABR space, and keeping up with new viewing devices, new platforms and new circumvention methods is a significant challenge. Vantage Gateway can help. We can encode your files for both MPEG-DASH and HLS streaming. During processing, the content encryption key (CEK) for your preferred DRM platform is used to encrypt and insert the DRM metadata into the file manifest, and the CEK is registered with the appropriate Key Management Server (KMS). After the processed, encrypted and validated assets are delivered to your destination, we send you a detailed job report via your API.

Freedom of Choice

We support the leading DRM solutions on the market, including Google Widevine, Apple Fairplay and Microsoft Playready, as well as the BuyDRM KeyOS, iStreamPlanet Atlas, SkyDRM and Viaccess-Orca platforms. So, whether you’re already using one of these or deciding which way to go, we’ve got your covered.

Google Widevine

Widevine provides the ability to license, distribute and protect the playback of content on Android mobile devices and Google Chrome web browsers. It is used by many of the world’s most prominent content creators and streaming platforms, including Amazon Video, Netflix, Spotify and BBC.

Apple Fairplay

Fairplay secures the delivery of streaming media to devices through the HLS protocol. The technology protects playback on iOS and tvOS devices, and Safari running on iOS and macOS. 

Microsoft Playready

PlayReady is the widest deployed content protection technology in the world, used by most major online video services today and operating on more than four billion devices. It can be incorporated into media applications on televisions, set-top boxes, mobile phones, tablets, personal computers and other devices. 

 Supported Encryption Methods

  • MPEG-TS HLS Outputs

  • AES-128-CBC (Bulk)

  • SAMPLE-AES

  • fMP4 (CMAF) Outputs

  • AES-128-CBC (Bulk)

  • MPEG CBCS
    (AES-CBC Subsample mode)

  • MPEG CBC1 (AES-CBC mode)

  • MPEG CENC (AES-CTR mode)

  • MPEG CENS
    (AES-CTR Subsample mode)

A destination is required when using encryption without specifying the encryption_key or encryption_key_file. The key used for encryption will be uploaded to the same destination as the output file, with a .key extension.

 Simple Integration

Make the addition of DRM packaging to your workflow easy and affordable with the Vantage Gateway API. We offer XML templates for all popular devices, optimally configured for each, to further simplify your operation.

XML
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<query>
    <userid>[UserID]</userid> <!-- required-->
    <userkey>[UserKey]</userkey> <!-- required-->
    <action>[Action]</action> <!-- required-->
    <format>
        <playready>yes</playready>
        <playready-apikey>[KeyOS api key]</playready-apikey>
        <playready-profileid>[KeyOS profile id]</playready-profileid>
        <playready-templateid>[KeyOS template id]</playready-templateid>
    </format>
</query>
JSON
{
    "query": {
        "userid": "[UserID]",
        "userkey": "[UserKey]",
        "action": "[Action]",
        "format": {
            "playready": "yes",
            "playready-apikey": "[KeyOS api key]",
            "playready-profileid": "[KeyOS profile id]",
            "playready-templateid": "[KeyOS template id]"
        }
    }
}

Resources

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