[Discuss] live streaming needs flash?

[F. O. Ozbek]

On 7/27/15 8:35 PM, David Rosenstrauch wrote:
> Netflix now can do streaming on Linux without Flash.  (Though it doesn't
> look like all streaming services work this way currently.)
>
> It looks like Netflix uses the NSS (Network Security Services) libraries
> to do this.  (See
> http://www.pcworld.com/article/2824623/ubuntu-linux-gets-netflix-without-weird-workarounds.html
> for more details)  I can confirm firsthand that this works on my distro
> (Arch).  But it only works in Google Chrome, not the fully open source
> Chromium.

just another data point:
Using Ubuntu 15.04 and google-chrome to watch Netflix.
Works better than OSX + silverlight on the same Mac mini hardware.

-- F. Ozbek