[Yelloworanges]

Originally Posted by streamcrank

What is "flash access".. It doesn't exist..

I was using the legacy name. As kingstaytheking pointed out earlier, the more precise name is Adobe Access. No flash player need be involved.

https://helpx.adobe.com/adobe-media-...ction-hls.html

As described in the above link, the content can be protected using three modes:
Vanilla
PHLS
Adobe Access 4.0

Originally Posted by streamcrank

AES-SAMPLE works the same as AES-128 except they can change keys instead of just IV per segment.

https://bitmovin.com/tutorials/hls-encryption/

Sure, but there is the small matter of actually getting the key in the first place. For HLS implementations of Adobe Access and PlayReady, this is an entirely different proposition than vanilla AES-128 where the key is in plaintext in the first instance.

Originally Posted by streamcrank

I don't care about these other networks because all the big networks use uplynk and zype and uplynk and zype only use variants of HLS that are all standards compliant..

I can't argue with you not caring. Some members here are interested in content that uses actual hls drm methods to protect the key, which is distinct from vanilla AES-128 hls which is not really drm at all.