![]() ‘It’s not quite as easy as opening Netflix and hitting play, but it is easier than adding PPAs’įor Google Chrome users on Ubuntu this means you can, albeit with a little bit of extra tweaking, get Netflix video to play on Linux. Put two and two together and you get… showtime! With Google being one of the chief backers of this plugin-free DRM approach, Chrome natively supports EME. Google describes EME as “a JavaScript API that enables web applications to interact with DRM systems, in order to allow playback of encrypted media.” This works without the need to hand off to or make use of bloated third-party plugins like Silverlight or Adobe Flash.īack in June Netflix announced support for HTML5 video playback on Windows 8.1 and Safari (Yosemite only) using EME. ![]() How?Įarlier this year the web standards body the ‘World Wide Web Consortium’ (commonly known as the W3C) controversially pushed forward with plans to introduce support for protected content (‘DRM’) through HTML5 Video through the Encrypted Media Extension specification. ![]() It’s now possible to stream video content from Netflix on a Linux desktop natively in recent development builds of Google Chrome. Subscribers have to use a supported platform, like Windows, Chrome OS or Android, or wrestle with a Wine-based workaround, the successes of which can vary from person to person. Netflix do not currently provide, offer or support any “official” way to watch content from their service on Ubuntu, Fedora or any other desktop Linux distribution. The day those of us on Linux could log into the world’s most popular video streaming service, and watch movies and TV shows without having to jump through hoops, has been long overdue. Native Netflix Linux playback can be enabled in the latest beta and development builds of Google Chrome - no Wine-wrapped Silverlight plugin required.
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