[peak3d]

I want to inform you that 2 things has changed in the last time:

1.) liberty-developer, who forked my inputstream.adaptive tree, pushed his development back to my repo.
This means, that the DRM decryption wrapper is now included in the kodi nightlies.
For you this means much less confusion about versions of the libssd_wv library, it comes with inputstream.adaptive and is always compatible to the binary addon.

On Android devices DRM decryption works now OOTB simply by enabling inputstream.adaptive, reason is that DRM is part of the Android operating system. For all other OS you still have to pull a widevine binary blob to be able to watch encrypted content.The reason why we dont make the pull automatically is that closed binaries are - in our current interpretation- against kodi's GPL 2 license agreement. Discussion is going on.

2.) inputstream.adaptive has now HLS support.
There have been many requests in the past, and the multi bitrate definition of the format fits well into this binary addon.
Startup of streams seems to be much faster than using the kodi internal ffmpeg implementation, and at the time adaptive bitrate switching is working, HLS supports this as well.

AES-128 encryption is supported, SAMPLE-AES not as there was no usecase for this ntil now.
Adobe / FairPlay DRM is NOT implemented, I have not found any reasonable sources for this, and not any usecase (except some SD streams wich are already prepared for DASH / widevine)

Looking forward for success stories using the new HLS functionality.