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Of course the irritating thing is that all of their consumer devices are internally Linux as well, including the FireTV's that happily stream Amazon Prime in 4K
by jra_samba 4y ago
Of course the irritating thing is that all of their consumer devices are internally Linux as well, including the FireTV's that happily stream Amazon Prime in 4K.
So it isn't like they can't do it, just won't.
- Arcanum-XIII 4y agoBut all consumer device were vetted with quite often drastic DRM. Those that no one will install on their computer given the choice. So it's Linux technically, but not in spirit, hence a different proposal.
- vladvasiliu 4y agoBut you don't even have that choice. I'm OK with running binary blob drivers on my Linux machine (if they work). And since I'm running a reasonably recent GPU, it could be conceivable that all decoding is done on the GPU itself and sent directly to the monitor, which supports HDCP.