"Deloptes"  wrote
| > |
| > An informative error message. That would be
| > a clever idea. :) Last night I tried to watch a
| > Hoopla movie in FF and got a message like, "Media
| > could not be played." After some research it seems
| > the problem is probably that ARM browsers don't have
| > Widevine DRM. I'm getting an education in what
| > you *can't* do with a Pi.
|
| Don't know on which ARM you experienced this. I had similar experience
last
| year on the new RPI 4b. In recent updates it was resolved. Video in for
| example youtube works just as fine as in the x86.
|

  A new Pi4, updated. Youtube does work fine. Hoopla,
for those who don't know, is a service through libraries.
Like Netflix but free. Another one is Kanopy. If your
local library or associated university subscribes then
you can get movies for free. Not an amazing selection,
but pretty good. And Netfilix has gone *way* downhill,
so Hoopla might actually be better.

  Youtube is fine because it's not restricted. Hoopla
and others like Netflix need the Widevine DRM
component. I only know about all of this since last
night, the first time I tried to play something on
Hoopla. Widevine is not legally distributable as a
stand-alone package and DRM browsers don't have
it, at least so far.

  I found info online to force-install Widevine to
Chrome. Didn't seem to work to make movies play on
Hoopla. I'm going to try again with this simplified
version that someone put together:

https://blog.vpetkov.net/2020/03/30/raspberry-pi-netflix-one-line-easy-install-
along-with-hulu-amazon-prime-disney-plus-hbo-spotify-pandora-and-many-others/

   It seems that Widevine is needed but that also many
sites do userAgent sniffing, so that has to be spoofed.
Ugh.

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