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Does this work on Chromium (the FLOSS base for Chrome) or only the Google-branded Chrome browser?
It doesn't work on Chromium because of its lack of support for DRM.
[0]http://askubuntu.com/questions/158388/how-do-i-make-chromium...
> Thanks to recent efforts at Netflix and Canonical, Ubuntu now supports watching Netflix with Chrome version 37. Funnily, Chrome 38 is now out ( http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2014/10/stable-chan... ) after an emergency release, which shows how long these press releases take to plan.
It makes it sound like Canonical made some sort of concerted effort, didn't they just package Chrome (or do the Chrome people do that)? Packaging and uploading to the repos is work of course but I imagine most of that is automated, the feeling here is that Canonical strived in some way to get this result. I'd be interested to know what Canonical did out of the ordinary to get to this result?
Been doing this for about a year now through pipelight[0] and another more esoteric hack before then. I hope this fix is not so hard on the cpu although I'm guessing it is the same wine hack in a different form. [0] https://launchpad.net/pipelight
Been doing this for about a year now through pipelight[0] and another more esoteric hack before then. I hope this fix is not so hard on the cpu although I'm guessing it is the same wine hack in a different form. [0] https://launchpad.net/pipelight
Been doing this for about a year now through pipelight[0] and another more esoteric hack before then. I hope this fix is not so hard on the cpu although I'm guessing it is the same wine hack in a different form. [0] https://launchpad.net/pipelight
It doesn't seem to be related to wine. I think it's more likely google ported the drm that got used on chromebooks for netflix to chrome for linux.
When did Netflix not work under Ubuntu? I have never had an issue using Firefox.
Why do these "Linux gets Netflix" stories not have the same bad attitude from folks as the "W3C caves to DRM" stories? They're the same topic, essentially.
Maybe a better comparison is the general glee shown about Steam coming to Linux. I would never install Steam on my machine, but I also can't imagine a situation in which I'd be forced to because (for example) Gnome wouldn't run without it anymore. Therefore, I think of it as a non-bad thing that may be a good thing if it attracts developers.
So why does this work? Is Chrome 37 for Linux now being shipped with support for Encrypted Media Extensions, i.e., HTML's built-in DRM, with Netflix relying on EME? Or has something happened with Moonlight to support Netflix DRM? Or what?
Chrome 37+ already had the necessary DRM extentions, but it only worked with a recent version of the NSS library. It was possible to play HTML5 video on Netflix in Linux since then, but you needed to fake your user agent to say you were on Windows. The reason it works now is that Ubuntu 14.04 (the latest LTS version) has updated to the necessary version of NSS, so Netflix will serve HTML5 video to the standard Chrome…
Why do these "Linux gets Netflix" stories not have the same bad attitude from folks as the "W3C caves to DRM" stories? They're the same topic, essentially.
It's a shame that so many people in the OSS community have such an asymmetric and hypocritical view about paying people for their work and respecting creators' licensing intents. If I take a GPLed GitHub repo, clone it, incorporate it into my commercial closed-source app, and release without source or credit to the author in violation of the GPL, everyone gets bent out of shape. But apparently quite a few people in the community don't extend that kind of respect to non-programmers. Only developers have rights -- artists, musicians, etc. can go suck it.
Just commenting on why the industry refuses to give up DRM despite the fact that it's complicated, costly, limiting, and users hate it. Want DRM to go away? Start showing the same respect to all creators that you show to others in your own field.
(Not directed at anyone in particular, but to prevalent attitudes and behaviors in the community.)