Re: RFC: Can FreeBSD stream Netflix?

On 6/25/25 08:40, Jason Bacon wrote:
> On 6/23/25 08:19, Daniel Tameling wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 23, 2025 at 02:24:00AM +0200, Daniel Engberg wrote:
>>> 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
>>>
>>
>> This is the original forums post on how to set it up:
>> https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/watching-spotify-and-listening-to- 
>> netflix-in-2023.90695/
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Daniel
>>
> 
> Just tried this and I'm getting error code M7701-1003, make sure "Sites 
> can play protected content" is selected in chrome settings.  I did that 
> (it was enabled by default, but I disabled and re-enabled it for good 
> measure).
> 
> GhostBSD has this enabled by default in their chromium package, but I 
> get the same error there.
> 

linux-widevine + linux-chrome is working fine for me.  To be clear, I 
enabled Linux compat using auto-install-linus_base from 
sysutils/auto-admin, which also enables linprocfs, etc.  Probably not 
necessary, but just in case anyone has trouble with a more spartan 
linuxulator setup.  Hopefully widevine will sustain support for RHEL 
going forward.  This is the first time I've seen it work on enterprise 
Linux (I haven't checked in the last couple years).

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