On 10/11/2014 04:19 AM, Sebastiaan Lokhorst wrote:
Just because there still seems to be some confusion: Plugin-free Netflix requires Embedded Media Extensions (EME).[1] This is supported by all major closed-source browsers: Internet Explorer, Safari and Chrome. This includes Chrome on Arch (available in the AUR), without the need for any user-agent hacking or plugins. EME however requires a closed source component, therefore it is NOT available in open-source browsers, such as Chromium and Firefox, and likely _never_ will be. In the future, it might be possible to use some kind of closed-source plugin to support this in open-source browsers, but there is none at the moment. (there was some discussion about this with Firefox, see [1] for more details) So basically, at the moment you have two options to use Netflix on Arch: (1) install a closed-source browser (i.e. Chrome) with EME, where it will work out-of-the-box, or (2) install a open-source browser with all kinds of hackery such as Pipelight. I hope that this clears things up. Sebastiaan [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encrypted_Media_Extensions
Very much so. Thanks much for the update. I'm a chromium user, so looks like I'll have to switch to chrome. DR
