Native Netflix support for linux

[coacharnold]

Native Netflix support for linux???? What does this mean for us in XBMC4XBOX land ?? anything??

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2014/08/netf ... rt-plugins

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[professor_jonny]

nothing what so ever.

It is a way of playing protected content from a web browser in linux without emulating a windows enviroment.

but it will possibly get plugged in the future.

[spicemuseum]

Native Netflix support for linux????

Way cool. HTML 5 seems to be the answer to everything from killing off the evil of Adobe Flash to solving global poverty, hunger and conflict....and making beer more brown.

What does this mean for us in XBMC4XBOX land ?

Diddley squat.

[kolosus]

The founding members of Netflix (and controlling parties) are ex-MS employees.

Linux will never have native Netflix support. Best linux has is android support...

PS: Never is a strong word. Someday...

[Dan Dar3]

We've been working with Google to implement support for the HTML5 Premium Video Extensions in the Chrome browser, and we've just started using this technology on the Samsung ARM-Based Chromebook. Our player on this Chromebook device uses the Media Source Extensions and Encrypted Media Extensions to adaptively stream protected content. WebCrypto hasn't been implemented in Chrome yet, so we're using a Netflix-developed PPAPI (Pepper Plugin API) plugin which provides these cryptographic operations for now. We will remove this last remaining browser plugin as soon as WebCrypto is available directly in the Chrome browser. At that point, we can begin testing our new HTML5 video player on Windows and OS X.

We're excited about the future of premium video playback on the web, and we look forward to the day that these Premium Video Extensions are implemented in all browsers!

http://techblog.netflix.com/2013/04/htm ... tflix.html

We expect premium video on the web to continue to shift away from using proprietary plugin technologies to using these new Premium Video Extensions. We are thrilled to work so closely with the Microsoft team on advancing the HTML5 platform, which gets a big boost today with Internet Explorer’s cutting edge support for premium video.

We look forward to these APIs being available on all browsers.

http://techblog.netflix.com/2013/06/htm ... ws-81.html

[Dan Dar3]

Xbox (original) could never do Netflix, so I guess this will have little impact. This doesn't mean though it won't slowly go away, but from my perspective it will stick around though for as long as users will use it, for whatever they do (music, games, emulators etc).

I would see the little Android boxes and soon coming Android TV being a much bigger threat.
http://www.android.com/tv/