No Chance for 1080p for Netflix / Amazon in LE9 (NUC)

Kodi_Newcomer · December 13, 2017 at 9:01 PM

Hello com,

Ist there realy no way to become 1080p in the Netflix andere Amazon Addons under LE9 and for example an Intel Nuc ?

I have found a News about Something with Intel Linux and drm i will Post this later. Maybe in the near Future we can have 1080p on Linux ?

Here is the Post in German.

Here some on Reddit.

Greets,

Newcomer

**chewitt** · December 14, 2017 at 4:11 AM Official Post

The short answer in respect to those DRM change is 'no' because having drivers that support HDCP is only one piece of a complex puzzle. You still need a secure boot environment which contains a widevine L1 decryption key. The current architecture for widevine requires keys to be associated with a single device type that has been certified (a closed unit of specific hardware and OS). There is no framework for generic hardware support. The Intel changes are more relevant for BR playback on Linux than netflix.

Kodi_Newcomer · December 14, 2017 at 1:06 PM

Only Prolems with Intel Nucs, or also with LE for every device ? Maybe a Wetec Play 2 can handle it with LE9 in 1080 / 4k ?

**chewitt** · December 14, 2017 at 10:48 PM Official Post

It's a problem for all devices bar the handful that have been widevine L1 certified and have device-specific certs embedded in their firmware. WP2 and Hub are certified devices, but we would need to implement OP-TEE secure boot on Linux. We are aware of work being done for a European telco IPTV project that uses Amlogic S905D devices that we would like to learn from, and may revisit things in the future once a mainline kernel codebase is available. It's not going to be an LE9 feature.