$ mpv 'http://localhost:8989/blobs/get/&fNYYzSwokE4DSZsqJxkoSPAWiFXJzGQBt+LY9Mcfgmg=.sha256?unbox=HAKR34cROYxgirpU7wLhdUt2/8EJkcRb6bXNJEU7L4o=.boxs'
[ffmpeg] Seek failed (to 1121777, size -38)
[ffmpeg] Seek failed (to 1121777, size -38)
[ffmpeg/demuxer] mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2: moov atom not found
[lavf] avformat_open_input() failed
[ffmpeg] http: Will reconnect at 1134338 in 0 second(s), error=End of file.
[ffmpeg] http: Will reconnect at 1134338 in 1 second(s), error=End of file.
[ffmpeg] http: Will reconnect at 1134338 in 3 second(s), error=End of file.
[ffmpeg] http: Will reconnect at 1134338 in 7 second(s), error=End of file.
[ffmpeg] http: HTTP error 416 Range Not Satisfiable
[ffmpeg] Seek failed (to 9223372036854775799, size -38)
(+) Video --vid=1 (*) (h264 1080x1080 30.000fps)
(+) Audio --aid=1 (*) (aac 1ch 44100Hz)
[ffmpeg] Seek failed (to 36, size -38)
[ffmpeg/demuxer] mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2: stream 0, offset 0x24: partial file
[lavf] error reading packet: Invalid data found when processing input.
[ffmpeg] Seek failed (to 2800, size -38)
[ffmpeg/demuxer] mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2: stream 0, offset 0xaf0: partial file
[lavf] error reading packet: Invalid data found when processing input.
[ffmpeg] Seek failed (to 4770, size -38)
[ffmpeg/demuxer] mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2: stream 1, offset 0x12a2: partial file
[lavf] error reading packet: Invalid data found when processing input.
Exiting... (Errors when loading file)
I suspect the problem is that the video is being played using a HTTP Range request, which we are not handling correctly. multiblob-http handles Range requests. But it doesn't know about the blob unboxing. It takes a transform function which we use for the blob unboxing, but it applies that function after calling blobs.getSlice. The result is that the range is applied to a slice of the encrypted blob and then we attempt to unbox that, which fails.
To fix this, I think we have to either disable support for range requests for boxed blobs, or fix the implementation.
To make range requests for boxed streams work, the easy inefficient way would be to decrypt the blob stream from the start (i.e. using blobs.get instead of blobs.getSlice), and then slice the resulting transformed stream to the ranges requested (i.e. discard the stream up until the offset we want.
To efficiently support random access on a boxed blob, we could cache the decryption state: for each box-stream packet in the blob stream, record a mapping of its offset in the decrypted stream to the offset in the encrypted stream stream and the nonce needed to decrypt it. This mapping could be cached in memory and/or on disk. To answer a range request for a boxed blob, we look up in the mapping the nonce and ciphertext offset for the closest offset ≤ the requested cleartext offset, get the data starting there using getSlice, decrypt it with the passed unbox key and nonce, and then slice it to fit the requested range exactly.
As reported in thread
%YvyRh0zP/W+Lk5g9aysGM1ecMm4T9lE/JjmBaO6IDcs=.sha256
about playing videos from encrypted blobs.Demo
We have the same file, added as an (unencrypted) blob, and as a boxed (encrypted) blob:
Playing the unencrypted one works:
Playing the encrypted one does not:
I suspect the problem is that the video is being played using a HTTP Range request, which we are not handling correctly.
multiblob-http
handles Range requests. But it doesn't know about the blob unboxing. It takes a transform function which we use for the blob unboxing, but it applies that function after callingblobs.getSlice
. The result is that the range is applied to a slice of the encrypted blob and then we attempt to unbox that, which fails.To fix this, I think we have to either disable support for range requests for boxed blobs, or fix the implementation.
To make range requests for boxed streams work, the easy inefficient way would be to decrypt the blob stream from the start (i.e. using
blobs.get
instead ofblobs.getSlice
), and then slice the resulting transformed stream to the ranges requested (i.e. discard the stream up until the offset we want.To efficiently support random access on a boxed blob, we could cache the decryption state: for each box-stream packet in the blob stream, record a mapping of its offset in the decrypted stream to the offset in the encrypted stream stream and the nonce needed to decrypt it. This mapping could be cached in memory and/or on disk. To answer a range request for a boxed blob, we look up in the mapping the nonce and ciphertext offset for the closest offset ≤ the requested cleartext offset, get the data starting there using
getSlice
, decrypt it with the passed unbox key and nonce, and then slice it to fit the requested range exactly.