How To Enable HTML5 Playback For Netflix On Ubuntu 14.04 Or 14.10 | Linux Today

How To Enable HTML5 Playback For Netflix On Ubuntu 14.04 Or 14.10

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Aug 20, 2014

Netflix supports HTML5 playback (using the Encrypted Media Extensions) but unfortunately, it doesn’t work out of the box on Linux for now. However, following a few steps, you can get native Netflix HTML5 video playback through Google Chrome (Beta or Unstable at the time I’m writing this article) in Ubuntu 14.04 or 14.10. The instructions below are for Ubuntu, but they should work on other Linux distributions as well, as long as you have a recent libnss3 version […]

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