1573919 - [Meta] Test Widevine in automation

Status: NEW

(Core :: Audio/Video: Playback, task, P3)

Description

[Bryce Seager van Dyk [:bryce] (he/him) - Not reading bugmail]

I would be useful to be able to test the Widevine CDM in automation. Previously a number of blockers had made it unclear if this could be done, however, many of these now have solutions:

• Creation of Widevine test media.
  • We can do this with shaka-packager.
• Since we don't package the CDM in the browser, it was unclear how we should get it into automation to avoid network conditions causing us intermittents.
  • It sounds like Taskcluster lets us prefetch resources and expose them as artifcats. I believe some other tasks already do this.
• We'd need to touch the network in order to reach Widevine license servers.
  • This one doesn't yet have a clear answer. At worst we could try and use the network. However, it may be possible to run a local license server for testing.
• If the above is feasible within our agreements with Widevine.
  • I've discussed with legal and it appears that we can do the above for testing purposes. However, I will follow up as part of this bug.

Comment 1

[Bryce Seager van Dyk [:bryce] (he/him) - Not reading bugmail]

It sounds like running a local license server may be difficult to do, but that we could reach out to a remote widevine license server for testing provided our test environment allows it.