Starting with Chrome 38, DRM can be managed by HTML5. Firefox and other
browsers have not implemented this yet because the code for this is closed
source. I believe you still need to use a plugin such as user agent
switcher, as Netflix will not play natively on linux machines.
On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 11:21 AM, Don Harper
On 2014-10-10 11:59 AM, Daniel Micay wrote to To arch-general@archlinux.org:
On 10/10/14 11:52 AM, David Rosenstrauch wrote:
I noticed the announcement today that Ubuntu now supports Netflix streaming, due to new features recently added to the Chrome browser.
https://insights.ubuntu.com/2014/10/10/watch-netflix-in-ubuntu-today/
Does this work on Arch's version of Chrome as well? Are additional package installations required?
Thanks,
DR
It should work out-of-the-box in Chrome, but Chromium doesn't come with the PPAPI plugin for EME. I don't know how feasible it is to get that plugin working in Chromium. For the Pepper Flash plugin, it's as simple as dropping the shared object into the directory and adding 2 cli flags.
I just updated to the latest google-chrome in the AUR (38.0.2125.101-1) and it just works. Prior version (36 something) did not work.
d
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