Re: OT: YiouTube sunscribed sites

On Fri, 20 Dec 2024, Andy Burns wrote:

Theo wrote:
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nospam@example.net wrote:
 

get yourself a Radxa Zero and run Kodi on it.
That way you can turn off all the smarts on the TV, and just view the
stuff you want to view through the Radxa single board computer.

 ...until you want to watch Netflix, iPlayer, ITVX, Disney+ or whatever. Then
you'll find there's either no streaming app or the streaming app won't run
because you aren't running their DRM on 'certified' hardware.

Don't know if they've b0rked it in new and innovative ways, but I did have Kodi (or maybe it was still XBMC at the time) running with the widevine plugin extracted from the Chrome installer, running on a Pi3 ... obviously it did require a Netflix account, which I stopped paying for after a year.
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Actually... I think I installed a youtube plugin and it worked. But that was for the wife, but she never used it in the end.
What I usually do, is to download documentaries off youtube with yt-dlp and ship them to the NAS, there they are picked up by the kodi automatically if they are well known.
Works lile a charm and all commercials are removed as well.