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Netflix 1080p is a new browser extension for Google Chrome and Firefox (a fork). It should work in other browsers that support Chrome's extensions system.
The extension enables support for 1080p on Netflix in the browsers. Netflix customers can use Chrome or Firefox, on any supported operating system, to watch streams in 1080p using those browsers.
This overrides Netflix's -- seemingly artifical -- streaming quality limitation. The extension is especially useful for Linux users as it unlocks 1080p video streams on Netflix on Linux machines since that is not supported officially by Netflix.
Source: https://www.ghacks.net/2018/02/12/watch-netflix-in-1080p-on-linux-and-unsupported-browsers/
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(Score: 2) by MadTinfoilHatter on Wednesday February 14 2018, @06:46AM (1 child)
More like a real issue from days of yore that, yes, for the last 15 years or so is really just FUD. I remember having video playback problems on Red Hat 7.1 (videos would freeze and jerk randomly). The years was 2001. The problems persisted on RH 7.3, if I recall correctly, but when I switched to SuSE 9.1 in 2005 I could play videos just fine.
(Score: 2) by Immerman on Wednesday February 14 2018, @02:48PM
As a long time Linux user I'd have to disagree. Maybe it's just the distros I've used (mostly Ubuntu-based), or some configuration setting it doesn't like, or the fact that my linux devices all use integrated graphics, but I'm constantly running into web streams that simply won't play nice in full screen.
Obviously it's not a kernel problem since there's so very many embedded Linux devices that do just fine. I can send it to chromecast (if supported) and it streams flawlessly. I can view it at HD resolution in a window flawlessly. But view it full-screen in a desktop distro and I'm inviting stuttering, even at lower resolutions.