On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 8:11 PM, Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: <SNIP> (Netflix, etc, the common modern high-bandwidth > usage, is DRMed with, AFAIK, closed source decoding required, which makes > it not an option, for me.) >
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. mark@c2RAID6 ~ $ eix -Ic chrome [I] www-client/google-chrome (41.0.2272.89_p1@03/13/15): The web browser from Google [I] www-client/google-chrome-beta (42.0.2311.39_p1@03/13/15): The web browser from Google [I] www-client/google-chrome-unstable (43.0.2327.5_p1@03/13/15): The web browser from Google Found 3 matches. mark@c2RAID6 ~ $ HTH, Mark