Circumstantial evidence : my netflix started working lots better on Mac, because it switched to HTML5 playing. I indeed have the widevine plugin now.
Wout. On Sep 15, 2014 3:36 PM, "Mathijs Kwik" <math...@bluescreen303.nl> wrote: > 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 >
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