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# Overview

Microsoft released PlayReady in 2008 and it’s one of major DRM systems out in the market with broad [device support](🔗), sophisticated features and has been used at scale already by many events such as the Olympics in Sochi, Russia. The Bitmovin encoding service supports PlayReady encryption and packaging with MPEG-CENC. The Bitmovin player plays PlayReady encrypted videos on platforms that support the PlayReady DRM natively in HTML5 without plugins.

# PlayReady DRM Requirements

  • A multi DRM licensing server provider such as Irdeto, EZDRM, ExpressPlay, Axinom or others.

# About this example

The code snippets shown here are based on the [full example](🔗) called `CencDrmContentProtection.java`, using our [Bitmovin SDK for Java](🔗).

**Hint:** If you haven't created any encodings with our Service yet, its recommended to start with our quick start guide called "[Get Started with the Bitmovin API](🔗)" first, before you continue :)

# Encoding with DRM Configuration

The key part to create an encoding that encodes and encrypt content with DRM solutions that support MPEG-CENC, is to add a `CencDRM` Configuration to a `Muxing`.

To encrypt your content so it can be used with PlayReady DRM, an `encryption key` (referred to as `key` later on) is required. All other values are optional, however sometimes required by specific DRM vendors, therefore have to be set (`kid`, `pssh`, ...).

**General configuration values:**

  • `key`: (required) You need to provide a key that will be used to encrypt the content (16 byte encryption key, represented as 32 hexadecimal characters)

  • `kid`: (optional) also known as Key ID, or ContentID. Its a unique identifer for your content (16 byte initialization vector, represented as 32 hexadecimal characters)

**HINT:** Some DRM providers provide you with a dedicated service to create and safely store Encryption Keys, so you don't have to create and manage them by yourself. These values are required to generate a proper playback license using DRM solution providers like Irdeto, EZDRM, ExpressPlay, Axinom, etc. to control playback permissions on the client side. [Learn more](🔗).

**PlayReady DRM** specific configuration options: You can either provide an `pssh` string or an `laUrl` in this configuration.

  • `pssh`: (optional)Base64 encoded String, PSSH payload Example: `QWRvYmVhc2Rmc2FkZmFzZg==`

  • `laUrl`: (optional) The License Aquistion URL that shall be used by the player.

**Java SDK Example - createDrmConfig() Method** ([Line in Example](🔗))


# Get Started with a Bitmovin SDK
Bitmovin API SDKDescription
[Java](🔗)Integrate the SDK into your Java Project easily and add it to the config of your dependency manager like `Maven` or `Gradle`. [Learn more](🔗)
[Javascript/Typescript](🔗)Integrate the SDK into your Javascript/Typescript based project easily by adding it as a dependency via `NPM`. [Learn more](🔗)
[Python](🔗)Integrate the SDK into your Python based project easily by adding it as a dependency via `pip` or `Setuptools`. [Learn more](🔗)
[.NET](🔗)Integrate the SDK into your .NET based project easily by adding it as a dependency via `nuget`. [Learn more](🔗)
[PHP](🔗)Integrate the SDK into your PHP based project easily by adding it as a dependency via `composer`. [Learn more](🔗)
Visit our [Github Example Repository](🔗) that provides you with examples for all Bitmovin SDK's available.