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Is it possible to install the proprietary DRM module on Chromium? Similar to how you can extract the Chrome flash player and use it with Chromium?[0]

[0]http://askubuntu.com/questions/158388/how-do-i-make-chromium...




I'm not certain but I don't think so since Chromium is supposed to be the fully open source version it doesn't support the codecs or Media Source Extensions[0] that make it possible to enable the DRM modules Netflix uses.

You can test for support on Youtube[1] as well (I don't have Chromium so I'm not sure what the results are.)

[0]https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/html-media/raw-file/tip/media-source/... [1]https://www.youtube.com/html5


Running Chromium 37.0.2062.120 on Ubuntu 14.04, Youtube reports that I am compatible with all 6 formats, including Media Source Extensions.




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