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

Wed Dec 16 15:03:43 UTC 2015
Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com>


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