https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=415664
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--- Comment #2 from TW3 <white.tw...@gmail.com> ---
Hi please read https://blog.qt.io/blog/2016/06/03/netflix-qt-webengine-5-7/ as
far as DRM protected video content is concerned when using QtWebEngine based
browsers such as Falkon.
Falkon is licensed under the gnu gpl v3 and as such I would imagine is unlikely
to ever officially support DRM encrypted content. The main reason for this is
that the DRM software provided by Chrome is proprietary software which may
damage your machine. This is because it does not have the wide scrutiny
afforded by developing the software in the open, such as free and open source
software. Google don't just license widevine to anyone and there is no free
software alternative (and there likely never will be due to the fact it goes
against the very founding principles of the fsf.)
Beyond getting DRM to work in Falkon, if you are looking to watch Hulu.com or
disneyplus.com then you will need to ensure that the copy of Qt that you have
built Falkon against has proprietary codecs enabled. This is due to the very
high likelihood the two services you mention are using h.264 or h.265 instead
of webm. Pre-built binaries from Qt do not have this support enabled by
default. You are expected to contact Qt for licensing or compile yourself if
you already have licenses.
To top all of this, GPU accelerated video playback isn't supported by Falkon.
This is a current limitation of QtWebEngine. The CPU is used instead.
To this end, on Windows - New Edge (Chromium based) is currently the best
option for GPU accelerated video on Windows. It has DRM support, the
proprietary codec licenses are already part of the Windows 10 OS and most
importantly it has very good GPU acceleration.
I can see that you have reported this bug against Windows CE. Windows CE isn't
supported by Microsoft, so why would it be supported by a third party free
software developer in 2020? Did you mean Windows 10 instead?
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