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Exclude Widevine encrypted HEVC in Chrome #1592

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This is a summary of the findings of a slack thread, to capture the issue and findings before slack eats it.

It relates to the issue mitigated by this commit:

    // TODO: This is a fudge which gets around HEVC playlists being allowed by VHS
    // but Widevine / HEVC not being supported in Chrome. Forcing the player to a specific
    // resolution gets us a playlist with a supported codec.
    // Ideally there would be some way to detect and exclude HEVC playlists
    // that are encrypted.

The comment sums it up. Chrome supports HEVC, but not Widevine + HECV. It would be good if VHS (+ contrib-eme?) could find a way to exclude these playlists in Chrome.

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