Writing on video

Google switches off the free Widevine Cloud License Service on 13 April 2027. A second date, two months earlier and unverified, may decide whether your encrypted library survives at all. What to check this week, what the alternatives cost, and which part of the work eats the calendar.

I spent an afternoon designing the wrong tool. The right one was much smaller: there is nowhere to paste a Common Media Client Data payload and read what it says. Along the way I found that version 2 quietly rewrote the format of the keys you already parse.