Smartlabs UDRM: Simplifying Content Protection for Pay TV
November 12, 2025
Smartlabs UDRM: Simplifying Content Protection for Pay TV
November 12, 2025
In today’s streaming world, content travels everywhere — from mobile phones to Smart TVs and PCs. Protecting it shouldn’t be complicated. That’s where Smartlabs UDRM comes in: a unified DRM solution that keeps your content safe across all devices without creating extra work for your team.
One System for Multiple Devices
Traditional DRM often requires separate implementations for each device or platform. Smartlabs UDRM eliminates this complexity. A single system works across iOS, Android, PCs, and Smart TVs, allowing content providers to maintain security without managing multiple DRM solutions.
Easy Integration
UDRM comes with client-side libraries and can be integrated with SmartMEDIA or with other packagers and packaging workflows. Whether you use SmartMEDIA or a third-party packager, the system is designed to reduce technical overhead and make deployment less error-prone.
Flexible Access Control
In combination with SmartTUBE video platform UDRM adds a layer of device-level security. The system validates each playback request to ensure that only authorized devices can retrieve decryption keys. This protects against key requests from untrusted or tampered devices.
Industry-Standard Security
SmartLabs UDRM supports all major DRM systems — Widevine, PlayReady, and FairPlay Streaming— and works seamlessly with popular streaming formats like DASH and HLS. It’s built around the Common Encryption model and supports both ‘cenc’ and ‘cbcs’ encryption schemes, ensuring consistent content protection across devices.
For operators using their own packagers or streamers, the UDRM server easily integrates into existing workflows through standard interfaces — including the Common Encryption API for Widevine DRM, CPIX, and SPEKE — to securely exchange keys and maintain full interoperability.
Efficiency and Scalability
Using a unified DRM approach helps reduce operational complexity and allows providers to scale efficiently. It also lowers storage requirements because only one encrypted copy of each content item is stored, which is then re-encrypted and re-packaged dynamically depending on the device requesting it. Smartlabs UDRM offers a balance between strong content protection and manageable workflows.
Proven Adoption
This solution is widely adopted: 90% of our customer base relies on Smartlabs UDRM, demonstrating its reliability and effectiveness across a broad range of Pay TV deployments.
Request a free live demo to discuss how Smartlabs UDRM can let you focus on what matters most — distributing great video — while leaving the security worries to us.
