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Did you know that you could just grab an old computer slap Ubuntu on it, and get all of those services through only 1 HDMI slot?
by kneebonian 3y ago
Did you know that you could just grab an old computer slap Ubuntu on it, and get all of those services through only 1 HDMI slot?
- nehal3m 3y agoIf you want an inferior experience due to DRM you could absolutely do that. [1] Please don't grease the wheels of the attestation hype train. [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/netflix/comments/n8ilcz/4kuhd_on_linux/ https://www.reddit.com/r/netflix/comments/n8ilcz/4kuhd_on_li...
- elabajaba 3y agoAnd then be limited to 720p because you don't have the right DRM because Linux.
- arbitrage 3y agoI mean, blame is probably better assigned "because capitalism", not "because Linux".
- ndiddy 3y agoThat's assuming you get the content through the services themselves rather than through other means.
- CuriouslyC 3y agoThis right here. You're anti-consumer? Enjoy losing money with your content "monopoly"
- speedgoose 3y agoI also enjoy spending time on shady websites with scams ads and virus. That will teach Netflix and Apple.
- thefurdrake 3y agoI don't spend any time on shady websites with scams, ads, and viruses, and I surf the high seas for video content with regularity. It's very easy to do safely, and in this day and age, it beggars belief that this comment was made in good faith. Stop spreading misinformation.
- ygjb 3y agoIt's not really misinformation though. Most vuln researchers aren't burning browser 0-days targetting pirates, but many piracy sites host malicious content, even if that content isn't looking to deliver malware through browser vulnerabilities. There is a significant segment of the internet that thrives in the gutters between paid services, straight up piracy sites, and actual "dark web" sites that require TOR or other specialized access. The restreamers that live in those gutters are questionable at best, straight up illegal at worst, and fund themselves through fraudulent ads, or legit ads for sketchy or dangerous services and sites. It is entirely possible to use those sites safely, just like it's also possible to navigate dark alleys in major urban centres in the late hours, but that doesn't make it a low-risk activity.
- thefurdrake 3y agoI don't navigate any dark alleys in order to perform piracy. I pay a service to host/run torrents, and I browse the available torrents through their associated torrent aggregator. The only danger involved here is in the actual downloaded content. There have been a few codec/filetype vulns for video files in the past, sure, but one that deploys through the browser through a local Plex instance would be pretty interesting, to say the least.
- speedgoose 3y agoPlease share the websites because I never found them.
- thefurdrake 3y agoAm I allowed to share links to piracy websites on HN or are you baiting to get me banned?
- vladvasiliu 3y agoIf you're talking about doing the playback on Ubuntu, you lose the high-definition. I guess it may not be important for you, but I expect someone who sunk a fair amount of change on a high-end TV to care.
- ronsor 3y agoAt that point, hit the high seas and ditch the nonsense
- papichulo2023 3y agoEven then, last time I checked HDR playback on linux was a very hit-or-miss thing.
- mcpackieh 3y agoDo you mean HDR? High definition video playback works fine on Linux. Very performant even with low end hardware.
- callalex 3y agoThe content providers will refuse to serve the video to you without DRM, attestation, HDCP, whatever new crap some MBA came up with to justify a paycheck to some other MBA…
- mcpackieh 3y agoOh, well using linux to use the same services would be pointless of course. I thought the point was to play local media.
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- natdempk 3y agoA lot of streaming services limit the resolution they provide via DRM restrictions on Linux unfortunately.
- andrewmackrodt 3y agoI don't have (all of) those services but they're not like for like comparable for any services using Widevine, e.g. Amazon, Netflix and Disney. A Linux install will give you access to L3 content using the browser (usually limited to 720p but you can get a 1080p stream out of Netflix using a browser extension). I think the poster was having a bit of a joke though.
- mschuster91 3y agoI'm really surprised that no one has bothered (or managed) to create an open-source TEE emulator. I mean, there's a ton of different ARM CPUs around there, and it's all ARM under the hood, so it should be possible to create a virtual TEE/TPM and provide it transparently to a VM?
- IntelMiner 3y agoIt's not that it can't be done, just that it's an arms race of reverse engineering to try and keep it working against a motivated and financed adversary
- vladvasiliu 3y agoWhat I'm more surprised, is that since most of the decoding and stuff is done on the GPU anyways, and the GPU has to be HDCP compliant, why can't they just directly send the stream to the GPU as is, tell it where to display it, and be done with it.
- gjsman-1000 3y agoWell, then you couldn't have a play button, or pause button, or video text over the top of the video; unless there was some way of turning the GPU into a hardware-level compositor... which is generally not recognized as a good idea.
- vladvasiliu 3y ago> unless there was some way of turning the GPU into a hardware-level compositor... which is generally not recognized as a good idea I admit this isn't a domain I'm particularly fluent in. As a matter of fact, I thought that was already the case with all the talk about "GPU acceleration" of desktops. I think there was an HN post about Windows a few days ago, with people commenting on how all this changed between Windows 95 and 8/10.