5 ms·
I've noticed this issue with some streaming services too. eg Amazon Prime Video will serve different quality streams for Chrome on macOS than it will for Chrome
by laumars 4y ago
I've noticed this issue with some streaming services too. eg Amazon Prime Video will serve different quality streams for Chrome on macOS than it will for Chrome on Linux.
- jorams 4y agoThis is generally because of DRM. They only support higher definitions on stricter levels of Widevine DRM, which need both software and hardware support.
- alleskleber 4y agoThat's a DRM restriction.
- krzyk 4y agoIt is DRM, and Amazon Prime is particularly bad, it servers 540p or similar - it is basically unwatchable (other streaming services default to 720p, which is OK, with netflix having an unofficial plugin that makes it 1080p). And I was thinking I'll watch The Boys in nice quality on official streaming service, turned out I had to cancel Prime and download 2160p torrent. I'm still puzzling what DRM solves, in most cases it pushes me into torrenting.
- LAC-Tech 4y agoIf 540p is unwatchable for you, you need glasses.
- mb7733 4y agoIsn't it the other way round?
- seanw444 4y agoAgreed. DRM makes me want to spite the company even more. Sadly, we're the minority, so it won't have any affect. Normies continue to have 7 streaming service subscriptions, one for each show, and watch them at an "automatic resolution" of 480p.
- jiggawatts 4y agoNetflix when streaming to most PCs too, unless you have a specific batch of Intel CPUs, a monitor blessed with holy water, and you have counter-clockwise flow in your sinks.
- smileybarry 4y agoIt's better nowadays. All you need for 4K is Kaby Lake/Ryzen or newer (or a NVIDIA/AMD GPU from the same time or newer) and an HDCP 2.2 4K display.[1] 1080p is just practically any capable CPU/GPU with old HDCP. 1: https://help.netflix.com/en/node/23931 https://help.netflix.com/en/node/23931
- donkarma 4y agoOne alternative requires a torrent client.