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

[Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>]

Thanks for the clarifications Randy.

- Mark

On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 2:09 PM, Randy Barlow
<randy@electronsweatshop.com> wrote:
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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.
>
> - --
> Randy Barlow
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