Hey Karsten, Karsten Sperling [2015-07-15 17:21 +1200]: > Now that I've got it running (and my family can watch on demand TV again > ;-) I might have a look if I can trace how the flash plugin is interacting > with HAL and if it's possible to stub out the relevant calls somehow via > either a fake hal service or client library. I've CCed in Bart Martens in > case he has any thoughts on this issue? It would be nice if DRM video in > flashplugin-nonfree would "just work" for normal users without having to > install a custom HAL build by hand.
I *think* pretty much the only thing that the DRM plugin wants from hal is accessing the system's serial number. This is normally only readable for root for privacy reasons: -r-------- 1 root root 4096 Jul 15 06:53 /sys/class/dmi/id/product_serial But IIRC hal made that public via a property. So it might be enough to just create a little stub for this, using python-dbusmock or a little libhal stub which you initialize once with your system serial number. But this is just a faint memory/conjecture, it might need something entirely different. Apparently arch has a stub for this: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Flash_DRM_content#Using_the_modified_libhal_stub but I haven't looked into it at all. (TBH, I'd never trust any networking-related product which hasn't been updated for a decade and still requires hal..) Martin -- Martin Pitt | http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Developer (www.debian.org) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
