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Just going to point out the obvious and say a co-watch remote browser definitely wouldn't work with Netflix. I love the confusion on people's faces when they tr
by tentacleuno 5y ago
Just going to point out the obvious and say a co-watch remote browser definitely wouldn't work with Netflix. I love the confusion on people's faces when they try to do it over Zoom ("Why is the video black?"). Yay Widevine?
- graderjs 5y agoThis is cool! Thanks for bringing that to my attention. I didn't know that and had never tried netflix until your comment just now. First I tried with Firefox, then with Chrome UAs, and tried importing a libwidevine.so. Nothing works, and Netflix says the error is a missing CDM component. I suppose that's better that it doesn't work. I don't think Netflix / Spotify would be cool with that. It's a little disappointing to not me able to test out Netflix on this, but less risky :P ;) xx
- getcrunk 5y agoThat's caused by hardware acceleration ... I have not tried it. But I'd say make sure you are on a desktop using desktop zoom app and then a web browser for Netflix and turn hardware acceleration off. I can't imagine how widevine could stop that. Zoom would have to be working with Netflix to make it happen
- capableweb 5y ago> That's caused by hardware acceleration .. Eh, no, this is because of DRM. The DRM that browsers now offer (wtf) allows browser applications to black out themselves if they detect things like screen recording. Not sure exactly how the implementation works (as DRM is generally a black box, on purpose), but it definitely is on purpose and not really related to hardware acceleration. The API Zoom is using for screen sharing is probably the same API you'd use to record the screen, so when Netflix detects that, they chose to black out the content.