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Flaviano Bada

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Aug 2, 2024, 7:50:53 AM8/2/24

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Hi guys, first of all....thanks a lot to the garuda team....i fell in love on this distro several months ago...and lost the tickling feeling of keep changing distro...hahaha. In any case, im not a coding expert or something, simply enjoy the linux experience.

Lately i got the firedragon browser and i really like it with its lovely detalis like darkreadfer, canvas and u block....and i just make the exceptions on the tabs i dont want them. Nevertheless i also love to watch plex and netflix and both of them need some plugins of widevine and cisco thing (screenshot attahced). The thing is that they never install and only says "OpenH264 Video Codec provided by Cisco Systems, Inc. will be installed shortly." and same for widevine. Could you please helpme to fix this issue and only use firedragon :)?

Ill have a look at that. I dont need these plugins so I didnt notice that until now, but its happening to me as well when trying to reproduce
After doing some research I found that we have this in firedragon.cfg:

and restarting the browser, you will be prompted to install the missing plugin. Let me know if this works for you, if it doesnt we will have to dig deeper
Actually I want both of these to work as they are needed to do Netflix or other things people do so itll be included if working

Indeed after every test (commenting some of the preferences or all the section), restarting and checking update on the addon screen, firedragon still not working. Even though something changed on the addon screen...now only widevine is yellow...but in any case neither plex nor netflix works. Attached screen.

So finally, it worked...jejejejee...you were right 99.9% but we were missing something...and is that for some reason i had to disable all extensions, use about:restartrequired on the browser for 3 times in order for it to work. After those 3 resets i went back to netflix and plex and working like a Charm! After that i enabled the extensions and all good.

Not enough power to play 1080p NF with software decoding. Set NF resolution to 720p.
Just the 922X boxes can NF inputstream 1080p playing proper.
Other boxes maybe can, but there is too high cpu usage/temp.

NF low bitrate streams can be played with 1080p on almost all 905xx devices, but high bitrate streams can be played at 1080p only on 922x devices.
Check the actual bitrate when you compare 2 devices. I can get many NF streams in 1080p on my S905x and S912 boxes, but all with low bitrate.

So forgive my noobish question, why can it handle 4k just fine with plex/kodi player? Is it something to do with streaming technology and more specifically software decoding? And if this is the case, why not just run netflix from the android side which supports hardware decoding?

I think we are talking past each other. I got a new s905x3 box. I set it up to connect to plex. It plays my 1080p and 4k files smoothly through plex. I then decide to try Netflix. It struggles with 1080p. I am told its a limitation of the hardware. So I ask why does it work fine on plex but not netflix, does plex somehow use hardware not software decoding? Then you tell me netflix is the problem. This doesnt explain why plex works fine on the same hardware. Well unless i can infer that plex is using hardware decoding?

Neflix files are also MP4 files, so they are encoded, an your box could decode them in Hardware.
But in addition they are DRM protected=encrypted.
With widevine this decryption makes your video lag, because you CPU has to decrypt the streamed bitrate on the fly, higher quality=higher bitrate more CPU load.

On Linux there is no such inbuilt widevine layer, therfore all linux boxes will take the widevine implementation from chrome browser or better ChromeOS recoveryimage, with addon inputstream.adaptive. And it will fallback to software decryption