[Oddsodz]

With the greatest respect to all Devs and coders of Kodi. I feel you may just be looking at this issue wrong. From a viewpoint of an end consumer with some tech understanding of how things work (but not a great understanding). Asking devs to come up with a way to hook into existing DRM code at low level on certain operating systems will incur a lot of down the road "technical debt". The constant DRM evolution will require constant upkeep with ever changing code and standards. Now I know it has been asked about before. And I know that some Devs/coders are just not interested in it. Some are opposed on moral grounds (open versus Proprietary code). But if Kodi was to add the "ChromeCast receiver protocol" as a Core feature. Then the end user would not need to worry about addons for "NetFlix" "Amazon" "BBC iPlayer" "Tidal" "Spotify" "Deezer" and many many more legal and good subscription stream based services from around the world. And Devs/Coders would not have to worry about updating all the addons needed for all the separate providers.

What I mean by "ChromeCast receiver protocol" is that Kodi can be setup as "ChromeCast" device just like a chromecast dongle thingy from Google. Or like some mid range AV receivers have already built in. And the "nVidia Shield" (also think the Roku and the Firesticks from Amazon can do it too but I have not researched them too much).

This way. End users have a simple (and legal) way to watch all the things from the legal providers and Kodi Devs don't have to worry about DRM. The DRM is handled by the providers on their own apps on smart phones (in theory).

Now if I was a coder. And knew what I was doing. I would have done this already myself and pass the code along to Kodi. But alas. I am not ;-(


TL : DR. Noob end user wants to sneak in a feature request that many have already asked for. Sorry

Thanks for taking the time to read.

Oddsodz