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David Rosenstrauch

10 Oct 2014 10 Oct '14

3:52 p.m.

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

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Rodrigo Maia

10 Oct 10 Oct

3:56 p.m.

Hi learning this https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pipelight https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/netflix-desktop/ sorry my english :) 2014-10-10 12:52 GMT-03:00 David Rosenstrauch :

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

Daniel Micay

4 p.m.

On 10/10/14 11:56 AM, Rodrigo Maia wrote:

Hi learning this

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pipelight

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/netflix-desktop/

sorry my english :)

Chrome ships with Netflix support via a sandboxed EME plugin. Using pipelight is not required and no longer possible anyway because Chromium / Chrome no longer have support for NPAPI plugins.

Joe Eaves

3:56 p.m.

On 10 Oct 2014, at 16:52, David Rosenstrauch wrote:

Does this work on Arch's version of Chrome as well? Are additional package installations required?

Some more info here: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2014/08/netflix-linux-html5-support-plugins -- :wq!

Daniel Micay

3:59 p.m.

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.

Hugo Osvaldo Barrera

14 Oct 14 Oct

6:13 a.m.

On 2014-10-10 11:59, Daniel Micay wrote:

On 10/10/14 11:52 AM, David Rosenstrauch wrote:

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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.

There would be little point in getting it to work with Chromium anyway. Why would you care if you're using an open source browser if you're gonna add a propietary DRM plugin onto it? Just pick Chrome and avoid the hastle. That is, after all, what Chrome is: Chromium + propietary addons (+ some rebranding). -- Hugo Osvaldo Barrera A: Because we read from top to bottom, left to right. Q: Why should I start my reply below the quoted text?

Sebastiaan Lokhorst

6:28 a.m.

2014-10-14 8:13 GMT+02:00 Hugo Osvaldo Barrera :

There would be little point in getting it to work with Chromium anyway. Why would you care if you're using an open source browser if you're gonna add a propietary DRM plugin onto it? Just pick Chrome and avoid the hastle. That is, after all, what Chrome is: Chromium + propietary addons (+ some rebranding).

A proprietary plugin can be sandboxed, to be sure it doesn't do anything it's not supposed to do. That's at least the idea that the Firefox people want to implement. Besides that, just using Chrome is indeed the easiest solution right now. The only problem is that it is not in the official Arch repositories, leading to more hassle. Would it be possible to move it there from the AUR? We have lots of closed-source software in the official repositories, and I think Chrome (with EME and Flash Player built in!) would be very useful for people. We already have the old NPAPI Flash Player, so I don't see why this would be a problem. Sebastiaan

Doug Newgard

6:40 a.m.

On Tue, 14 Oct 2014 08:28:46 +0200 Sebastiaan Lokhorst wrote:

2014-10-14 8:13 GMT+02:00 Hugo Osvaldo Barrera :

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There would be little point in getting it to work with Chromium anyway. Why would you care if you're using an open source browser if you're gonna add a propietary DRM plugin onto it? Just pick Chrome and avoid the hastle. That is, after all, what Chrome is: Chromium + propietary addons (+ some rebranding).

A proprietary plugin can be sandboxed, to be sure it doesn't do anything it's not supposed to do. That's at least the idea that the Firefox people want to implement.

Besides that, just using Chrome is indeed the easiest solution right now. The only problem is that it is not in the official Arch repositories, leading to more hassle.

Would it be possible to move it there from the AUR? We have lots of closed-source software in the official repositories, and I think Chrome (with EME and Flash Player built in!) would be very useful for people. We already have the old NPAPI Flash Player, so I don't see why this would be a problem.

Sebastiaan

I believe the closed source portions are non-redistributable.

Sebastiaan Lokhorst

6:49 a.m.

2014-10-14 8:40 GMT+02:00 Doug Newgard :

On Tue, 14 Oct 2014 08:28:46 +0200 Sebastiaan Lokhorst wrote:

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2014-10-14 8:13 GMT+02:00 Hugo Osvaldo Barrera :

...
There would be little point in getting it to work with Chromium anyway. Why would you care if you're using an open source browser if you're gonna add a propietary DRM plugin onto it? Just pick Chrome and avoid the hastle. That is, after all, what Chrome is: Chromium + propietary addons (+ some rebranding).

A proprietary plugin can be sandboxed, to be sure it doesn't do anything it's not supposed to do. That's at least the idea that the Firefox people want to implement.

Besides that, just using Chrome is indeed the easiest solution right now. The only problem is that it is not in the official Arch repositories, leading to more hassle.

Would it be possible to move it there from the AUR? We have lots of closed-source software in the official repositories, and I think Chrome (with EME and Flash Player built in!) would be very useful for people. We already have the old NPAPI Flash Player, so I don't see why this would be a problem.

Sebastiaan

I believe the closed source portions are non-redistributable.

Unfortunately, you seem to be right...

From https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/browser/privacy/eula_text.html :

"5.3 Unless you have been specifically permitted to do so in a separate agreement with Google, you agree that you will not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, trade or resell the Services for any purpose." Thanks for the quick reply anyway! :) Sebastiaan

Hugo Osvaldo Barrera

7:01 a.m.

On 2014-10-14 08:49, Sebastiaan Lokhorst wrote:

2014-10-14 8:40 GMT+02:00 Doug Newgard :

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On Tue, 14 Oct 2014 08:28:46 +0200 Sebastiaan Lokhorst wrote:

...
2014-10-14 8:13 GMT+02:00 Hugo Osvaldo Barrera :

...
There would be little point in getting it to work with Chromium anyway. Why would you care if you're using an open source browser if you're gonna add a propietary DRM plugin onto it? Just pick Chrome and avoid the hastle. That is, after all, what Chrome is: Chromium + propietary addons (+ some rebranding).

A proprietary plugin can be sandboxed, to be sure it doesn't do anything it's not supposed to do. That's at least the idea that the Firefox people want to implement.

Besides that, just using Chrome is indeed the easiest solution right now. The only problem is that it is not in the official Arch repositories, leading to more hassle.

Would it be possible to move it there from the AUR? We have lots of closed-source software in the official repositories, and I think Chrome (with EME and Flash Player built in!) would be very useful for people. We already have the old NPAPI Flash Player, so I don't see why this would be a problem.

Sebastiaan

I believe the closed source portions are non-redistributable.

Unfortunately, you seem to be right... From https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/browser/privacy/eula_text.html :

"5.3 Unless you have been specifically permitted to do so in a separate agreement with Google, you agree that you will not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, trade or resell the Services for any purpose."

Thanks for the quick reply anyway! :) Sebastiaan

If you're really interested in doing so, you may ask google for permission. This has already been done for skype [0]. Cheers, [0]: https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/tree/trunk/PERMISSION?... -- Hugo Osvaldo Barrera A: Because we read from top to bottom, left to right. Q: Why should I start my reply below the quoted text?

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Daniel Micay
David Rosenstrauch
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Hugo Osvaldo Barrera
Joe Eaves
Rodrigo Maia
Sebastiaan Lokhorst