The Quest for Netflix on Asahi Linux • Hacker News Board

Re: The Quest for Netflix on Asahi Linux

#291

Post by musicale » Sun, Mar 12, 2023, 1:59 AM UTC

heleninboodler wrote: post #223

musicale wrote: post #178

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> a nice little download right next to the play button This is obviously what we would actually want.

But we are talking about Netflix's motivations, not ours. And Netflix does not want this download button.

I'm not.

Buffering delays can be greatly reduced, if not eliminated entirely, by simply sending the whole file but in the past many upstream content providers insisted on limits for the amount of buffering/storage in the client.

Fortunately you can now download entire videos in the app, though they're undoubtedly encumbered by DRM of some sort.

Re: The Quest for Netflix on Asahi Linux

#292

Post by dvngnt_ » Sun, Mar 12, 2023, 7:47 AM UTC

aidenn0 wrote: post #23

jasoneckert wrote: post #10

Excellent 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.

In terms of freedom of using compute devices, RMS has a point. In terms of freedom of using media, I'm less annoyed by Spotify or Netflix than I am by "purchases" of media that have DRM. It's clear that one is renting with the streaming services, but Amazon can revoke permission for me to read books I have purchased or Valve can revoke permission for me to play games I have purchased, we are truly living in a dystopi…

depends on the game. many steam titles don't need steam to actually run

Re: The Quest for Netflix on Asahi Linux

#293

Post by Mindwipe » Tue, Mar 14, 2023, 3:22 PM UTC

dtx1 wrote: post #280

Mindwipe wrote: post #240

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Widevine has been privately cracked/bypassed. Sort of. Widevine has various levels, and there are exploits for the lower ones. But the upper ones really only have a vulnerability if a hardware key gets extracted, and Netflix shows in higher resolutions are increasingly not available anywhere because of that. Stranger things Season 4 was only available at 720p for more than a month.

Just checked up on this, currently there are torrents available for Stranger Things Season 4. > Stranger Things S02E09 2160p NF WEB-DL DTS-HD MA 5 1 HDR DV HEVC-FRiENDS So either the DRM Level was reduced after the release (why would they ever do that?) or it was cracked but takes some time to do so.

It was cracked but they had to burn a hardware exploit to do so and the key was (I assume) subsequently revoked. So they are only doing it sometimes when there is a sufficient buildup of content.