Thanks for the clarifications Randy. - Mark
On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 2:09 PM, Randy Barlow <ra...@electronsweatshop.com> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > 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 > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1 > > iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJVCJgXAAoJEHhEzLg73SRikC4P/REhK91r/684oE0rgSrTdBAn > ufh3Gh4AphR/hTl0tYjKU8L4KLSi4hgEXdzlh2uwMUZBs2kU+sFtcdSXAf5+NbmN > FslQ4ym60yUz5jCUVz0OJZrKwsTGmFChpAruO5EVNzylVjmuYsMvUZaLu8zmeEod > soq8uGva/AuX1ggoiQegJFb7+X1fDEXg+PpuTQi03O3uGw8EpCW7FSFlDaCp00Dx > m82I4NV0/i3XFzgGsbfiOVlfSrkDUlaWghneXRflLFk9zXF0/7jkWy/XbMprWfT8 > gu1uH0h3E6ZhdbRnmQrmguaSZ3Bw94aaqzfAZjBqFLDk3htakaEyemX/N+hSh6dO > oDXsNPMq/aIWP/T/+UFUX0hRqFVB4sRNg+zgM/9VLWs4QjWMA/AQwu0FOErgydgJ > uWl3EXHBB2SyNlp3ORF39BlouO0k2F9C5s/OAvh5ochuc8P0PAgEy7203VE1nuE9 > Lf2AAIYJVl6tqW24HfVjbFk32wTcKM9rqfJJbif0qIajaz6Su/2WB9h5rjiKfrdc > 4MXAMaGRe4+wXttS5/JRTHDJrblH2kswQ4IDN3eMyLNHtyrzWIDv6hSd+RTzwEDK > rhrOstOICLdJtbRRYINuFWW3XLDe1eGCk7euVdZIsXIuQqglyU5AJjHzc/JYNIB+ > NmPdr8TT3kkxK+GTPCeR > =jD0O > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >
