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Raspberry Pi OS Gets Official Widevine Support

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Re: Raspberry Pi OS Gets Official Widevine Support

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Post by lxgr »

sdfhbdf wrote: post #7

Do you have to hand over your whole privacy to google and agree to them collecting data from your grandchildren when installing? On a serious note I thought Widevine was closed sourced and only licensed in some way, how has it made its way to Raspberry Pi OS without any consents and such? Is it libre? Or is this the new direction of the raspberry foundation to cooperate with big corps? Like when they included the Mic…

There‘s all kinds of uses for a Raspberry Pi. Not everyone is in it for ideological reasons, and I‘d argue just watching Netflix on it is a valid use case too.

Re: Raspberry Pi OS Gets Official Widevine Support

#13

Post by imode »

lxgr wrote: post #12
sdfhbdf wrote: post #7

Do you have to hand over your whole privacy to google and agree to them collecting data from your grandchildren when installing? On a serious note I thought Widevine was closed sourced and only licensed in some way, how has it made its way to Raspberry Pi OS without any consents and such? Is it libre? Or is this the new direction of the raspberry foundation to cooperate with big corps? Like when they included the Mic…

There‘s all kinds of uses for a Raspberry Pi. Not everyone is in it for ideological reasons, and I‘d argue just watching Netflix on it is a valid use case too.

I'd think privacy concerns over data collection aren't ideological, more ethical.

Re: Raspberry Pi OS Gets Official Widevine Support

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Post by booi »

sxp wrote: post #5

Is there any info on the level of DRM support? Widevine has multiple levels which means watching Netflix, Hulu, etc on a PC with Chrome will limit your video to 480p or 720p. In some cases, Edge will increase the video resolution to 1080p. I haven't found a way to legally access 4k video on a PC. I'm guessing the same limits apply on the RPi. You can test this by going to a video page like https://www.netflix.com/wat…

Is this true? It seems insane that you cannot watch 4k video on arguably the most powerful platform there is..

Re: Raspberry Pi OS Gets Official Widevine Support

#15

Post by nimbius »

>Widevine is not installed / enabled by default on Raspberry Pi OS though

it looks like the raspbian team got it right this time as opposed to secretly loading a GPG key and repository into everyone's OS to deliver a feature.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi_OS#Microsoft_Repo...

Re: Raspberry Pi OS Gets Official Widevine Support

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Post by Mindwipe »

sxp wrote: post #5

Is there any info on the level of DRM support? Widevine has multiple levels which means watching Netflix, Hulu, etc on a PC with Chrome will limit your video to 480p or 720p. In some cases, Edge will increase the video resolution to 1080p. I haven't found a way to legally access 4k video on a PC. I'm guessing the same limits apply on the RPi. You can test this by going to a video page like https://www.netflix.com/wat…

It will be Level 3, so limited.

Widevine levels are based on hardware support for features, and I can't really see any way the Raspberry Pi could ever have a closed protected video path for example. Indeed, all Widevine Level 1 devices are either closed devices with signed bootloaders (TVs), or with a Google written OS (Chromebooks) or both (Android phones).

(Also, where Edge gets higher resolution it's generally because it is using Microsoft's PlayReady as a Content Decryption Module, not Widevine. And on Windows PlayReady can access the APIs to check those similar hardware level features.)

Re: Raspberry Pi OS Gets Official Widevine Support

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Post by Mindwipe »

lxgr wrote: post #12
sdfhbdf wrote: post #7

Do you have to hand over your whole privacy to google and agree to them collecting data from your grandchildren when installing? On a serious note I thought Widevine was closed sourced and only licensed in some way, how has it made its way to Raspberry Pi OS without any consents and such? Is it libre? Or is this the new direction of the raspberry foundation to cooperate with big corps? Like when they included the Mic…

There‘s all kinds of uses for a Raspberry Pi. Not everyone is in it for ideological reasons, and I‘d argue just watching Netflix on it is a valid use case too.

Is it?

I mean, it's still not very good at it - you will only get lower resolutions, and at this point a Raspberry Pi and storage/power/cases are not cheaper than buying a Fire Stick or a Chromecast which works better for that use case.

Re: Raspberry Pi OS Gets Official Widevine Support

#18

Post by Mindwipe »

booi wrote: post #14
sxp wrote: post #5

Is there any info on the level of DRM support? Widevine has multiple levels which means watching Netflix, Hulu, etc on a PC with Chrome will limit your video to 480p or 720p. In some cases, Edge will increase the video resolution to 1080p. I haven't found a way to legally access 4k video on a PC. I'm guessing the same limits apply on the RPi. You can test this by going to a video page like https://www.netflix.com/wat…

Is this true? It seems insane that you cannot watch 4k video on arguably the most powerful platform there is..

If you mean a PC here, some video providers support 4K video to PCs. Netflix do. Amazon don't.

But the hardware has to support PlayReady SL3000 (or Fairplay on a modern Mac), expose that to the relevant parts of the OS and have an HDCP 2.2 chain to the monitor (and all monitors).

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