Netflix does not play videos

[Florian Boucault]

Steps to reproduce:

1. Go to netflix.com and login to your account
2. Try and play a video

Current result:

Refuses to even try playing saying:
"To watch instantly, you''ll need a computer that meets the following minimum requirements: [...]"

[Florian Boucault (fboucault)]

It works with chrome on ubuntu 15.04 desktop and with chromium no error message is shown but when loading the video it fails to play.

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

I tentatively added an oxide task, until we can investigate where exactly the issue lies.

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

Netflix depends on the proprietary widevine CDM (content decryption module) bundled with Chrome. I'm not sure what effort that would require to get it to work in Oxide, but so far nobody has managed to even get it working in Chromium. So we're probably out of luck here.

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

See also https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/chromium-dev/-6s_dNDF9tU.

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

Interesting read on the topic: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/05/reconciling-mozillas-mission-and-w3c-eme/

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

Given that Mozilla have Widevine working in Firefox with an adapter shim, there's no reason why we shouldn't be able to get this working in Oxide (although only for platforms where we have access to a widevine CDM)