Can Vero V as a secure video set top player with webpage distribution

[sam_nazarko]

Hi,

Sorry for the late reply.

If you want to encrypt content end-to-end and have it secured properly, you could look at using Widevine. Vero V has Widevine L1 CDM and HDCP2.2 keys burned.

But this may be overkill for your use case.

You could use something like LUKS. From what I remember, you wanted local storage. However, you’d be better off with your files on a remote server somewhere where they’re secured, and using HTTPS authentication to access these files. Then you’d lock the Vero down so it can’t access the command line or be logged in to, and disable UART and uSD and USB storage interfaces. This would be quite trivial to achieve.

@Mark_Cameron

Can Vero V be easily setup to do the first part of just being dedicated to a web site page(s) and have secure tokens as would happen on a PC mobile device etc? What steps are involved in doing that?

Showing web pages no – but it can play files from a remote web server, and you could use password based authentication.

@Mark_Cameron

What’s involved in setting up the V to save and play download versions of files for next time the person wants to view. Health places don’t want to buy pcs to do this unless it a one screen thing maybe.

That’s a whole DRM system, think BBC iPlayer. This would require a lot of work and won’t be a plug-in solution.

@Mark_Cameron

• Can 4K good quality picture slide shows also work

Currently limited to 1080p, but watch this space.

@Mark_Cameron

Being able to choose alternative music tracks would be an interesting extension to slide shows and films maybe ?

This would be an extension to Kodi for slideshows. But you can already change tracks for films without issue.

A different way to do this, and have 4K slideshows would be:

• Encode the slideshows as 4K videos which we can render without issue
• Add multiple audio tracks. These can then be changed on the fly as it would be considered a video.

Hope this helps

Cheers

Sam