Hi all, Recently, netflix enabled support for the chrome browser, running on linux. This means it should now be possible to watch netflix without silverlight in pure HTML5 video. This became possible because w3c's controversial EME (encrypted media extensions) which enables netflix to enforce DRM schemes.
Chrome 37 and higher have full support for EME, but EME is only an interface which plugs into the actual DRM component. The key component for this scheme is called "widevine CDM", which is also used by youtube for some content. It turns out that the widevine technology was acquired by google and also used for android and chromeOS video streaming. This CDM component is part of the official chrome distribution, but from googling a bit I found it should have been part of chromium by default as well now. I checked our stable, beta and dev releases, but chrome://components does not show it. I suspect we need to (optionally) enable extra flags during building, but I'm not familiar with the build process. Can someone please give me some pointers? it appears there is a "third_party/widevine/cdm/widevine_cdm.gyp" file in our sources, so that should probably be included somehow. Thanks, Mathijs _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
