Netflix now runs native in Linux with HTML5

[Freejack_]

About damn time…….. link below to avoid plagiarism accusations.

http://www.themukt.com/2014/10/10/break … ut-tweaks/

[Venn Stone]

Futzed with it last night. Neat, but half the things in the house already run Netflix.

[linuxgnuru]

Now, if only they’d let ‘Mericans use their service when they aren’t in ‘Merica

[aFoxNamedMorris]

All my video playback in Chrome is pixelated. Been using some Google-fu to no avail since none of the supposed “fixes” work…

[Venn Stone]

What happens when you set the bitrate to ze maximum /w alt+ctrl+shift+s

[aFoxNamedMorris]

Venn wrote:

What happens when you set the bitrate to ze maximum /w alt+ctrl+shift+s

Unfortunately, absoballylutely nothing. Just stays looking like a really bad DVD rip. I appreciate the suggestion. Would it help if I mentioned that HD is disabled? I literally have no HD button. Tried setting various Chrome flags, but to no avail.

[Freejack_]

You are using chrome dev correct? Also what are your setting in your netflix account? You can set them their to stream really low quality.

[aFoxNamedMorris]

Freejack_ wrote:

You are using chrome dev correct? Also what are your setting in your netflix account? You can set them their to stream really low quality.

I’m using Chrome stable, actually. o.o; I should totally try the development version…

Edit: Still borked video playback on everything under Chrome/Chrome Beta. Should I try Chromium, then? This issue is annoying. I really don’t wanna be forced to use an agent switcher and Pipelight. >.<

[Freejack_]

Chromium wont work. You have a setting somewhere effecting things or an addon.

[aFoxNamedMorris]

Freejack_ wrote:

Chromium wont work. You have a setting somewhere effecting things or an addon.

I set the flags to default, and after checking, it doesn’t appear that I have any addons that should be interfering. Also, hardware rendering is enabled. Still no dice. This happens on Youtube, Vimeo, etc. as well.

Dual-core Intel processor with Intel Ivybridge Mobile graphics, 4GB RAM, Xubuntu 14.10 64-bit.

Mesa 10.3, and Linux 3.17 kernel.

[Freejack_]

Ahhhh go into Netflix and turn HTML5 viewing on. Do the same on youtube. Problem for those sites solved. Flash is your issue.

[aFoxNamedMorris]

Freejack_ wrote:

Ahhhh go into Netflix and turn HTML5 viewing on. Do the same on youtube. Problem for those sites solved. Flash is your issue.

I’m just gonna deal with it till this is solved… HTML5 player is not helping or making it worse… Sorry to spam the forums with this nonsense.

[Freejack_]

You don’t need an html5 player Chrome plays it native. Uninstall flash, reboot and re-install flash.

[aFoxNamedMorris]

Freejack_ wrote:

You don’t need an html5 player Chrome plays it native. Uninstall flash, reboot and re-install flash.

But that won’t solve my Netflix issue because Netflix doesn’t use flash. It uses either Silverlight or HTML5, and that’s it. I don’t want to have to use Pipelight on Firefox to wrap M$ Silverlight with an agent switcher anymore. Problem is, going into fullscreen fucks up on Flash and HTML5.

[Freejack_]

What is your video? Intel, Nvidia, or AMD?

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