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There's three Winevine tiers, L1, L2 and L3, which generally correspond to 4K, 1080p and 720p respectively though it depends on the service. L3 is what you get
by jsheard 3y ago
There's three Winevine tiers, L1, L2 and L3, which generally correspond to 4K, 1080p and 720p respectively though it depends on the service. L3 is what you get on Linux. L2 is supposed to be more secure than L3 but AFAICT it makes little difference to piracy groups, L1 is the only actual roadblock for them.
- brnt 3y agoWhy are Linux users limited to L3?
- jsheard 3y agoBecause it doesn't meet the requirements for L2. I think L2 implementations are required to block software screen recording, for example, and there isn't really any practical way to enforce that on an open platform. Windows/Android/iOS have special support for compositing protected content so if you try to read the framebuffer back the content just shows up as a black rectangle.
- Mindwipe 3y agoL1/L2 requires a third party who could be liable to sign that the drivers are unmodified to the hardware. On a general purpose Linux installation who would do that? (And who in the Linux using community wouldn't take any efforts by someone to try as an afront, bluntly).
- bee_rider 3y agoAlso there aren’t really enough of us watching videos on Linux for it to be a worthwhile market for them to address, I think.
- panzi 3y agoDRM only really works if you're not root on your own machine, and with Linux you're always root on your own machine. Quite frankly I think DRM (the normalization of rootkits) is dangerous.