Chrome Widevine DRM can no longer be disabled

Re:Chrome Widevine DRM can no longer be disabled by michaelmrose on Monday January 30, 2017 @12:42AM (#13518964)

On desktop firefox for linux I notice that chrome makes vastly better use of gpu acceleration given nvidia card + official nvidia drivers are there plans for improvements on this front. This is literally the only reason to run anything but firefox on any device I have and would love to see improvements on that front. Without tweaking in about config my wifes computer which is anything but blazing fast with a dual core 3 ghz full screen 1080p video was like a slide show. Even after its noticably laggy to the point where I've had to install chrome.

I'm not sure if it makes any difference whether its flash or html5 video.

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Re:Chrome Widevine DRM can no longer be disabled by niutech on Thursday February 02, 2017 @01:41PM (#13553177)

Have you set the about:config preference layers.acceleration.force-enabled to true?

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Re:Chrome Widevine DRM can no longer be disabled by zbraniecki on Monday January 30, 2017 @11:50AM (#13522722)

did you report bug on bugzilla.mozilla.org ? If not, please do and include all the details you can about your platform.

Graphic driver bugs are nasty :)

Hope we'll be able to address it and remove the one and only reason you can't use Firefox!

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Re:Chrome Widevine DRM can no longer be disabled by michaelmrose on Monday January 30, 2017 @02:22PM (#13524177)

I don't think per se its a bug. It just seems to be relying on the cpu vs gpu and the cpu isn't incredibly fast. Its dual core phenom II 3 Ghz

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