The Quest for Netflix on Asahi Linux
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The Quest for Netflix on Asahi Linux
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#2I was looking into this very problem yesterday! Terribly scared by widewine, I ended up building webkit with eme support enabled, then enabled the relevent setting in the nyxt browser. Seems to be working fine so far.
Re: The Quest for Netflix on Asahi Linux
#3Just goes to show that the DRM is just security through obscurity.
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#4> This should be alarming to anyone with a stake in content "protection". Look how many hoops I had to jump through just to legally watch Netflix as a paying customer!
This tells me I should just stay on macOS or Windows rather than go on a Safari hunt for getting Netflix working on a ARM Linux machine.
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#5I was looking into this very problem yesterday! Terribly scared by widewine, I ended up building webkit with eme support enabled, then enabled the relevent setting in the nyxt browser. Seems to be working fine so far.
So are you using Widevine?
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#6> This should be alarming to anyone with a stake in content "protection". Look how many hoops I had to jump through just to legally watch Netflix as a paying customer! This tells me I should just stay on macOS or Windows rather than go on a Safari hunt for getting Netflix working on a ARM Linux machine.
”Hacker”news in 2023 ;-)
Re: The Quest for Netflix on Asahi Linux
#7> This should be alarming to anyone with a stake in content "protection". Look how many hoops I had to jump through just to legally watch Netflix as a paying customer! This tells me I should just stay on macOS or Windows rather than go on a Safari hunt for getting Netflix working on a ARM Linux machine.
The browser compatability is still a bit of a mess on those OSes. The only way to get the full resolution on MacOS is to use some specific combinations of Safari and MacOS versions. If youre using OSX or using Chrome/FF you're limited to 720p
Re: The Quest for Netflix on Asahi Linux
#8> This should be alarming to anyone with a stake in content "protection". Look how many hoops I had to jump through just to legally watch Netflix as a paying customer! This tells me I should just stay on macOS or Windows rather than go on a Safari hunt for getting Netflix working on a ARM Linux machine.
The browser compatability is still a bit of a mess on those OSes. The only way to get the full resolution on MacOS is to use some specific combinations of Safari and MacOS versions. If youre using OSX or using Chrome/FF you're limited to 720p https://help.netflix.com/en/node/23742
You can get 1080p with a browser extension that forces it.
Re: The Quest for Netflix on Asahi Linux
#9> This should be alarming to anyone with a stake in content "protection". Look how many hoops I had to jump through just to legally watch Netflix as a paying customer! This tells me I should just stay on macOS or Windows rather than go on a Safari hunt for getting Netflix working on a ARM Linux machine.
The support will get better over time. 10 years ago I couldn't watch any streaming services on Linux with Firefox or Chrome. There was a brief period where streaming services were still using flash so you could sideload the flash player onto Firefox but that didn't last long. Now I run Pop!_OS 22.04 with an Nvidia GPU and I can play almost all my DRM content including Windows games on Steam. While I still experience awful bugs that I wouldn't have otherwise experienced on Windows or macOS I can finally daily Linux desktop.
Re: The Quest for Netflix on Asahi Linux
#10Excellent writeup. Asahi is my daily driver, but I've never had the need for either Spotify or Netflix. I guess the gospel of RMS and the FSF over the past few decades has steered me away from anything DRM-related.