Re:The Netflix Website Gets a Major Upgrade
by nly on Monday June 15, 2015 @05:42PM
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You know what would be better? Ditching Silverlight. Fucking thing crashes on me every few minutes. I've been trying to watch the last 6 minutes of an episode of HoC for about 30.
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Re:The Netflix Website Gets a Major Upgrade
by simoncion on Monday June 15, 2015 @06:47PM
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I've been using the Netflix "HTML5"[0] player for what seems like at least six months. Check your playback settings and flip the "Use HTML5 player" switch.
[0] It's actually the EME player, which uses a binary blob for video decryption. But, The Industry calls this DRM scheme HTML5 video decoding, so whatever.
Re:The Netflix Website Gets a Major Upgrade
by icebraining on Monday June 15, 2015 @07:24PM
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They call it HTML5 player because it's using the HTML5 <video> tag and using native browser controls. Being decoded by an external module isn't determinant - in fact, Firefox uses the same infrastructure (GMP) for both encrypted and unencrypted videos.
Re:The Netflix Website Gets a Major Upgrade
by simoncion on Tuesday June 16, 2015 @02:26AM
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Oh, I know why it's called what it's called.
Lumping patent and copyright issues under the "Intellectual Property" umbrella harmed productive non-wonky discussion of the issues. I expect that lumping DRM'd and unencumbered video playback under the same umbrella will be similarly damaging to non-wonky discourse.
As mentioned they've had HTML5 playback for browsers that support which is basically Safari, Chrome and even Firefox I think.
Safari was the first browser that got supported and it's been working on Macs for ages without Silverlight installed.