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

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 12/16/2015 10:12 AM, Fabian Arrotin wrote:
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> On 16/12/15 16:03, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
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>> 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

I can live with that.  If you do go down the X path, I have moved to 
Xfce from Gnome.  It works nicely on F23-arm.