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

[Fabian Arrotin]

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On 16/12/15 16:03, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> 
> 
> On 12/16/2015 09:55 AM, Gordan Bobic wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> OK.  No TV viewing in my house, so no personal need.  Just a 'nice'
>  thing to better push the armv7 platfrom into homes.
> 
> thanks
> 

Also worth adding that we're only targeting cli environment for the
first release. There are quite a bunch of X packages, but untested
(and I know that Gnome wasn't built correctly).
If some people want to use X , we'll probably have to work on that
later, but I think that most of the centos 7 userland users for
armv7hl will be using it for small appliances, and not using X at all


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