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[leetbruce]

I want to be able to play Netflix using HTML5 in Media Center.  I am using windows 7 professional.
I have chromium set as my "browser engine."  However, no matter what I have tried Netflix plays in Media Center using IE with Silverlight.  I tried adding a Netflix webpage to Theater View. It opens with Chrome (but it's an older version than I have installed Version 27 versus 38 beta-m) -and it reverts to playing Netflix via Silverlight.  When I run netflix in Chrome separate from Media Center it uses HTML5 (version 38 beta-m).
What must I do to fix this?
Thank You

[JimH]

I don't think anything other than Silverlight is available to us.

Netflix is trying to phase out support from developers like JRiver.  You could tell them what you think.

[leetbruce]

Thank you for the prompt reply.  Sad to hear that Netflix is moving in the wrong direction with third party developers.
I was also curious why the version of chrome used in/by media center differed from my "installed" version.  If my installed version (38 beta-m) supports html5 without any special configuration wouldn't media center be able to use it?

[Awesome Donkey]

My guess why Netfix works in Chrome 38+ is because it supports HTML5 with DRM (Media Source Extensions + Encrypted Media Extensions + Web Cryptography API). Netflix announced native support in Safari with OS X Yosemite but it also works in Chrome 38+ and I believe Internet Explorer 11 too. More information about Netflix and HTML5 is available here.

The reason why MC probably can't take advantage of it is because it's probably using older Chromium for rendering. Plus you'd need to change the user agent of MC to match what's accepted by Netflix to stream over HTML5. But other than that, it's not impossible that MC couldn't continue using Netflix using HTML5 as long as everything's supported on the Chromium side. Maybe the Internet Explorer side too, not sure. Assuming of course the HTML5 DRM stuff is part of the open-source code.