Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Machine recommendations?

[Randy Barlow <randy@electronsweatshop.com>]

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On 03/17/2015 08:21 AM, Mark Knecht wrote:
> NetFlix now plays fine in Chrome, at least the unstable version. I
> use no special flags and get it directly from portage. No overlays,
> no license files. From my POV it's as open source as most other
> stuff but I haven't investigated that in any depth. Yes, the 
> content is DRM'ed but with (I think) HTML5 support in a browser I
> no longer need to run a VM to watch movies. Just log in.

It's important to note that Chrome is not open source (though it is
"open core", depending on your definition of "open"). Note that when
you emerge Chrome, no building occurs in Gentoo. The open core part of
Chrome is Chromium, and Chromium does not have the decryption module
to play Netflix.

This page explains Netflix playback a bit:

http://www.dash-player.com/blog/2015/02/the-status-of-mpeg-dash-today-and-why-youtube-and-netflix-use-it-in-html5/

Supposedly Firefox will be able to do it sometime soon, but it will
depend on a closed source extension that reportedly will be written by
Adobe ☹

I wish it were possible to watch Netflix using only Free Software.

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Randy Barlow
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