Re: RFC: Can FreeBSD stream Netflix?

Hi,

Should be doable via https://www.freshports.org/www/linux-widevine-cdm I 
suppose, you might need to "hack/adjust" user agent though. cc:ing Gleb 
(arrowd) as he might have more information about this. :-)

Best regards,

Daniel

On 2025-06-23 02:18, Warner Losh wrote:
> The other streaming option is a browser in a linux jail...
>
> Warner
>
> On Sun, Jun 22, 2025, 6:16 PM Mario Marietto <marietto2008@gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>
>     Hello Rick.
>
>     In freeBSD there are some special packages that will allow you to
>     watch Netflix using Chromium,but sometimes it does not work. Using
>     a browser extension that will lie about the user agent is not
>     enough. Personally I run Android X86 inside a bhyve vm and I can
>     watch Netflix using the native android app.
>
>     On Mon, Jun 23, 2025 at 1:52 AM Aryeh Friedman
>     <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>         You can get brower extensions that will lie about the user
>         agent to
>         make it look like it basically any browser on any OS you want.
>
>         On Sun, Jun 22, 2025 at 7:48 PM Rick Macklem
>         <rick.macklem@gmail.com> wrote:
>         >
>         > Hi,
>         >
>         > When I'm not tinkering with NFS I'm just a dumbass user,
>         > so here's a dumbass user question...
>         >
>         > The background (you can just skip to the question at the end
>         > but maybe you'll find this useful.
>         > I have two old Dell laptops (6420s) that I picked up used and
>         > they've done ok, but both now have flakey hdds.
>         >
>         > #1 - hdd died completely, so I installed FreeBSD and it went
>         >         pretty smoothly. It runs Xorg, KDE etc and works
>         pretty well.
>         >         But I can't get it to do one all important thing.
>         >         Stream Netflix. (I've tried assorted browsers, but
>         always get
>         >         the "you should upgrade your browser" treatment.)
>         >
>         > #2 - Runs Win10 and does stream Netflix, but is throwing lots of
>         >         hdd errors, so it only a matter of time before I'll
>         need to
>         >         replace the hdd. Once I do that, I have three choices:
>         >         a) Install FreeBSD, but only if I can get it to
>         stream Netflix.
>         >         b) Install Linux. (Some posts claim Linux distros
>         with up
>         >             to date browsers can stream Netflix?)
>         >         c) Install Win10 and run FreeBSD in a VM or dual
>         boot it.
>         >
>         >         I'd prefer (a), which leads to the all important
>         question...
>         >
>         > Is there someone out there that runs FreeBSD on a laptop or
>         > desktop who can stream Netflix?
>         > If you can answer "yes", can you recall how you installed it
>         > to make this work?
>         >
>         > Thanks in advance for any answers, rick
>         >
>
>
>         -- 
>         Aryeh M. Friedman, Lead Developer, http://www.PetiteCloud.org
>         <http://www.PetiteCloud.org>
>
>
>
>     -- 
>     Mario.
>