[Arm-dev] Are we going to get Netflix support on the armv7 userland build?

[Gordan Bobic]

On 2015-12-16 14:50, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> There is a person on the Cubieboard forum trying to get Netflix
> working with ubuntu with not much success (with ubuntu). So I thought
> I would search the Centos list about Netflix support, and see that
> Johnny Hughes had it working back in March on x64 with:
> 
> nss-3.16.2.3-5.el7.i686
> nss-3.16.2.3-5.el7.x86_64
> google-chrome-stable-41.0.2272.101-1.x86_64  (from google)
> 
> the question is can it work on armv7?  I am assuming we will (have)
> nss, but what about google-chrome?

You might get Chromium to build, but it brings all of the dependencies
with it (hence why it isn't included in any distro, it massively 
violates
distro packaging policies).

The key issue is most likely going to be that due to various DRM
requirements Netflix needs flash, which is bundled with x86 
google-chrome.
This will not exist for anything other than x86, so unless netflix
provides html5 video, it's not going to happen.