>Widevine is not installed / enabled by default on Raspberry Pi OS though<p>it looks like the raspbian team got it right this time as opposed to secretly loading a GPG key and repository into everyone's OS to deliver a feature.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi_OS#Microsoft_Repository_Controversy" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi_OS#Microsoft_Repo...</a>
Is there any info on the level of DRM support? Widevine has multiple levels which means watching Netflix, Hulu, etc on a PC with Chrome will limit your video to 480p or 720p. In some cases, Edge will increase the video resolution to 1080p. I haven't found a way to legally access 4k video on a PC.<p>I'm guessing the same limits apply on the RPi.<p>You can test this by going to a video page like <a href="https://www.netflix.com/watch/80018585" rel="nofollow">https://www.netflix.com/watch/80018585</a> and typing `document.getElementsByTagName('video')[0].videoHeight` to see the size of the actual video stream.
It looks like this has been available unofficially for a while: <a href="https://gist.github.com/teacupx/9393507ad6250429707f0318b04f1a3b" rel="nofollow">https://gist.github.com/teacupx/9393507ad6250429707f0318b04f...</a>
Do you have to hand over your whole privacy to google and agree to them collecting data from your grandchildren when installing?<p>On a serious note I thought Widevine was closed sourced and only licensed in some way, how has it made its way to Raspberry Pi OS without any consents and such? Is it libre? Or is this the new direction of the raspberry foundation to cooperate with big corps? Like when they included the Microsoft apt repository so that people can install vscode in 1 command instead of 4. [0]<p>[0]: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26035441" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26035441</a>
That makes a rpi more useful as a set-top box. I use an old laptop and a Roku now, and this might work better if performance is any good. My old Roku can barely keep up with the new versions of Amazon's channel.<p>For Firefox, Mozilla published two months ago: <a href="https://hacks.mozilla.org/2021/01/porting-firefox-to-apple-silicon/" rel="nofollow">https://hacks.mozilla.org/2021/01/porting-firefox-to-apple-s...</a> which involves some Apple-specific tricks, which makes me not hopeful Firefox on Arm on Linux will support DRM soon.