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    [–] [email protected] 156 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (6 children)

    Hey, at least it told you. When i was fiddling to get disney plus working on my own setup it just refused to play until i changed the reported OS to windows. Nothing else was changed. I really have no idea why they would go out of their way to block specific operating systems.

    [–] [email protected] 76 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Same with Amazon Videos.

    AFTER I PAID it told me my os does not support hd quality Playback.

    With kodi and a plugin I got it working to run at 1080p

    Saved it with OBS out of spite.

    Changing the user agent unfortunately didn't work.

    [–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

    You did? I also tried that, but the best resolution I got was 540p... As far as my research went that was because they require a higher widevine level not available on linux for HD

    [–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

    Install kodi and then the vod-Amazon plugin.

    Then you have at least 1080 if higher res is possible idk.

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

    That's more to do with the version of WideVine DRM your browser has - the DRM in Firefox is neutered so the chrome will always give the best experience. Why? Because the WideVine DRM is owned by Google.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

    It didn't work on Firefox Chrome or anything I tried

    [–] [email protected] 49 points 2 years ago (1 children)

    "We ain't supporting free shit!"

    • Disney
    [–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    Do this:

    \- Disney

    [–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago

    The reason is DRM. Windows supports some baked in DRM that Linux doesn't.

    [–] azvasKvklenko 16 points 2 years ago

    They just whitelist few of the "supported", operating systems. The message says what your OS is because it blindly read that from the UA.

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

    I have regularly watched Disney plus and Max on my Linux systems. But not all Linux systems are equal. Watching it on something like Debian would be pretty hard. Debian generally doesn't support much in the way of DRM as it goes against most of their philosophy. You can get a browser installed with support for the widevine DRM they require. But it's a lot of work on a system like that. However under Arch or Endeavor OS it was relatively simple.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

    However under Arch or Endeavor OS it was relatively simple

    Yeah I was about to ask, since my buddy and I watch Star wars sometimes on his arch Linux machine I thought Disney+ just had native linux support

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

    This must be a while back, because it works fine here.

    A few months ago they had a bug that prevented playback on Linux. But that was resolved after a week or so.