For a customer of Open Solutions, we need to mass encode thousands of video files and also segment and encrypt them for use with Apple’s HTTP Streaming. (using Amazon EC2 instances for the leg work).
The one piece of the jigsaw we were missing was encryption and after some work ourselves and with the help of a stackoverflow question, we have a working sequence of commands to successfully and compatibly encrypt segments for playback on Safari and other supported HTTP streaming clients.
Head on over to Open Solutions’ blog to read how we did it.
