14.02 up-rev NSS lib so Netflix can play

Paul Adolph padolph at netflix.com
Mon Sep 22 20:38:16 UTC 2014


On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 6:41 AM, Louis Bouchard
<louis.bouchard at canonical.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Le 22/09/2014 14:49, Marc Deslauriers a écrit :
>> Hi Paul,
>>
>> This morning NSS was updated to 3.17 in all supported version of Ubuntu.
>>
>> I can confirm that presently all that is required to watch Netflix in Chrome is
>> a User-Agent change.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Marc.
>>
>> /me goes back to watching "The Killing".
>>
>>
>
> It should be noted that this is true only for the *Chrome* web browser and not
> the *chromium* variant.
>
> Trying to view streaming from Chromium, even with the proper library will fails
> with an error complaining about a missing WidevineCdm and an error #14759.
>
> Doing the same from Chrome works perfectly.
>
> Thanks for adding the adequate library.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> ...Louis

Confirming that Chrome and Chromium showing different behavior is
expected, due to different respective EME implementations.




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