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Native Netflix Support Is Coming To Linux

Posted by Soulskill on from the a-pittance-of-love dept.

sfcrazy writes: Native support for Netflix is coming to Linux, thanks to their move from Silverlight to HTML5, Mozilla and Google Chrome. Paul Adolph from Netflix proposed a solution to Ubuntu developers: "Netflix will play with Chrome stable in 14.02 if NSS version 3.16.2 or greater is installed. If this version is generally installed across 14.02, Netflix would be able to make a change so users would no longer have to hack their User-Agent to play." The newer version of NSS is set to go out with the next security update.

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  1. Re:Finally! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    It still feels weird to call it "HTML5", when the thing it really needs is a proprietary DRM module that isn't part of the HTML5 specs (nope, EME does not specific that part).

    This is also why it doesn't actually work in Firefox. Adobe was developing a DRM module for it, but they're not done yet. The actual HTML5 video stuff (MSE) that is required got added a while ago.

  2. Re:When will it work in Seamonkey and Firefox by serviscope_minor · · Score: 3, Informative

    I'm waiting on Lynx support using ASCII. Damn!

    Well oddly enough if it didn't have DRM then that would work.

    You see, lynx can fire off MPlayer and MPlayer has an aalib and libcaca output mode allowing it to play in a terminal in monochrome or in colour.

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    SJW n. One who posts facts.
  3. Re: Finally! by houstonbofh · · Score: 4, Informative

    Yes, "sudo add-apt-repository ppa:" is hard...