watching, Netflix in browser

siguri

siguri

Dear Sir,
in general I have no reason to complain about the performance of the browsers I have in use, i.e. firefox and linux/opera. My machine is still almost just out-of-the box state \ not that well suited, limited to 2GB RAM. Still, I wonder why these apps are slowing down so much after usage over some...
Anyway.
Somewhere on a front-page a while ago of freebsd.org I read about freebsd might be running on some of the servers that stream the netflix-programmes. If that's true I wonder why I have to have such a hard time to get things straight in order to watch it.
I get something like HTML5 is missing something, however I wasn't able to / was to fast too frustrated to bother, well...
I don't expect a prompt pronto help, but I like to look forward to hint of some kind.

Your's sincerely
siguri
 
siguri said:
Somewhere on a front-page a while ago of freebsd.org I read about freebsd might be running on some of the servers that stream the netflix-programmes. If that's true I wonder why I have to have such a hard time to get things straight in order to watch it.
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These two things have absolutely no technical relation.

Netflix' streams are DRM-protected and require widevine for playback. That's proprietary and closed-source and FreeBSD ist not a supported platform. The only way to watch Netflix on FreeBSD is therefore using the Linux compatibility to install some Linux browser that comes with a widevine plugin.
 
User patovm04 has a good howto on installing google-chrome (from LInux, so has widevine) or brave-browser using Ubuntu, rather than the default Linux emulation.

forums.freebsd.org

[Linuxulator] How to install Brave (Linux app) on FreeBSD 13.0+

Important notes: 1) This guide is for FreeBSD 13.0 and newer only!! For FreeBSD 12, please see: https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/linuxulator-how-to-run-google-chrome-linux-binary-on-freebsd.77559/ 2) This method should be valid for installing any other Chromium-based web browser (Google...
forums.freebsd.org forums.freebsd.org
 
Maybe get a Fire Tablet and save yourself a lot of bother. They're essentially a commodity at £50 and there's a Netflix app in the store. Use something designed for your purpose.
 
Note that widevine L3 only supports SD content. So no 1080p (needs L2) and certainly no 4K (needs L1).
 
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