[lugm.org] Fwd: [New post] No Disney+ on Linux

Thu Nov 14 08:17:13 UTC 2019

Any thoughts on this issue?

Pray for the Linux/BSD only clients.

Cheers
Pritvi

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From: Alien Pastures <donotreply at wordpress.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2019 at 02:26
Subject: [New post] No Disney+ on Linux
To: <z.coldplayer at gmail.com>

alienbob posted: "With the new version 4.10.1582.1 of the Widevine DRM
plugin package for Chromium that I uploaded today
(chromium-widevine-plugin) I really hoped that this would fix the playback
error on Linux of the new Disney+ streaming service. As you may know, Disn"

New post on *Alien Pastures*
<https://alien.slackbook.org/blog/?author=1> No Disney+ on Linux
<https://alien.slackbook.org/blog/no-disney-on-linux/> by alienbob
<https://alien.slackbook.org/blog/?author=1>

<https://disneyplus.com/>With the new version 4.10.1582.1 of the Widevine
DRM plugin package for Chromium that I uploaded today (
chromium-widevine-plugin
<http://www.slackware.com/~alien/slackbuilds/chromium-widevine-plugin/>) I
really hoped that this would fix the playback error on Linux of the new
Disney+ <https://disneyplus.com/> streaming service.

As you may know, Disney is preparing for the official launch of its movie
streaming service this week tuesday, 12 November. But we in the Netherlands
could enjoy a free test period of two months before the go-live and so I
watched several episodes of the *Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.* series and
the *Captain
Marvel* movie, casting from my phone at first but now via an official app
on my smart TV. The bad performance of the app and frequent freezes of the
video streams have largely been taken care of and fixed during the test
period. If you are a fan of the *Disney* and *Fox* movie portfolio or enjoy
the *Marvel* and *Star Wars* movies, then I guess this new platform is for
you. It's still rather limited in scope of course.

Worse in my opinion is the fact that Disney did the Linux community a
disservice. The streaming of video does not work - on any browser. The web
site works fine, you can browse and explore, but video playback is not
possible and an annoying "Error 83" appears instead.

I had subscribed to Disney+ for the free trial straight away on day one. My
son was very pleased with that... and when I noticed that their site would
not work on my Linux desktop and laptop I assumed this was a beta issue and
that it would get fixed. But then the weeks passed and nothing changed.
First online reports of the Linux incompatibility were reported by a dutch
Fedora packager <https://hansdegoede.livejournal.com/22338.html>. Another dutch
tweaker found out
<https://tweakers.net/nieuws/157224/disney+-start-met-gratis-proefperiode-van-twee-maanden-in-nederland.html?showReaction=13428408#r_13428408>
that this is caused by a too restricted setting of the DRM for Disney+.
Disney uses Widevine as its DRM provider, just like Netflix, Amazon and
others. But they cranked up the security level to a value which is not
supported on the Linux platform - although it works just fine on Android.

By now the Disney+ streaming service is about to become available
world-wide... and Linux support still has not been fixed. My advice is to
refuse to pay for a subscription and instead file complaints with Disney
that they ignore a large chunk of potential customer base.

Go and write a letter of complaint and make the Linux fans be heard!

Eric
*alienbob <https://alien.slackbook.org/blog/?author=1>* | November 10, 2019
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