Desktop Linux is finally getting Netflix support

[techbeck]

While Linux now underpins a great deal in the tech world ? including the Roku and, most crucially, Android ? desktop Linux to this day exists in a quiet cul-de-sac where the command line is still the preferred UI. As such, users running the likes of Ubuntu and Arch Linux have had more ready access to streaming content on their phones and TVs than on their computers. But now, after seven long years, Netflix is finally and officially making its way to Linux.

 

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http://www.theverge.com/2014/9/19/6552939/desktop-linux-is-finally-getting-netflix-support

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Wait, you mean Desktop Linux is finally getting HTML5 support, right?

[ichi]

Wait, you mean Desktop Linux is finally getting HTML5 support, right?

It means that besides Netflix no longer requiring silverlight, Linux users also won't have to fake their user agent to bypass the artificial filter for html5 playback on EME capable browsers (ie. Chrome).

Netflix has been working from day one of their switch to html5 if you set the browser to pretend being a Windows version.

[simonlang]

it's called native playback and ubuntu is working on it ... deadline is to be said in about 2 weeks

 

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2014/09/netflix-linux-html5-nss-change-request

 

:)

 

now it's up to netflix to offer just a little bit more :shifty:

[ichi]

NSS 3.17 is now available on the stable Ubuntu 14.04 repos, which was Netflix's requirement to lift the user agent block.