Pipelight

Pipelight streaming server?

Asked by Renne

We love the Raspberry Pi with RaspBMC as low-power high-end media-center. Unfortunately there are no ARM binaries of Silverlight. :(

Would it be possible to extend Pipelight as a streaming server on a low-power x86 platform? RaspBMC would request what to play, the Pipelight streaming server would decrypt the media stream and pass it to the Raspberries to play ....

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Michael Müller (mqchael) said : 		#1

Hi,

the main problem of this idea is that plugins like Silverlight are made to offer DRM protection to video / audio data and this should basically prevent a user from saving the raw data. If we would implement a feature to transmit this data via a network someone could interpret this as a way to circumvent the protection as it is no problem to record the data now.

Moreover we do not have access to the raw data. We can only get the data which is drawn to the screen and it would be necessary to re-encode the frames resulting in a decreased quality and high cpu usage. There are also some other problems like Silverlight is using a lot of CPU power if you disable gpu rendering and that you also need to transmit the audio data.

The technical problems may be solvable but the legal problems are some kind of blocker as I am pretty sure that companies which earn money by providing DRM systems will try to sue us if we make it too easy to save the movie data.

Michael

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