Can't play video using Widevine DRM with DASH streaming URL

Question

We are implementing one video Roku channel and in that, we want to use the Widevine DRM with DASH Streaming URL to play the video. I followed the documentation given by Roku development forum but it is not working.

My current code is:

videoContent = createObject("roSGNode", "ContentNode")
videoContent.StreamFormat = "dash"
videoContent.Url = 'provided dash streaming url
' for widevide DRM
drmParams = {
    keySystem: "Widevine",
    licenseServerURL: 'provided our licenseServerURL
}
videoContent.drmParams = drmParams

HttpAgent = CreateObject("roHttpAgent")
HttpAgent.AddHeader("Authorization",AuthorizationTokenString)
m.VideoPlayer.setHttpAgent(HttpAgent)

m.VideoPlayer.content = videoContent
m.VideoPlayer.control = "play"

I referred the following link to find out the way. https://sdkdocs.roku.com/display/sdkdoc/Content+Protection#ContentProtection-Widevine-BETA https://sdkdocs.roku.com/display/sdkdoc/Content+Meta-Data#ContentMeta-Data-ExampleofconfiguringadashstreamwithWidevineDRM

Please let me know if I am missing something here and help me out solving this issue.

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 22 '21 at 08:19

Have you added this to your channel's manifest?

requires_widevine_drm=1
requires_widevine_version=1.0

In addition, when creating your video node, according to https://developer.roku.com/en-gb/docs/references/brightscript/components/rourltransfer.md

In order for your web server to perform the steps above to authenticate your Roku Streaming Player, your application needs to call the following functions before performing any https requests:

In your code it will be:

HttpAgent.SetCertificatesFile("common:/certs/ca-bundle.crt")
HttpAgent.InitClientCertificates()
HttpAgent.AddHeader("X-Roku-Reserved-Dev-Id", "")

Can't play video using Widevine DRM with DASH streaming URL

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