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Can't get 1080p playback and screenshots are black on Prime Video
Hi,
please try turning these flags Enabled or Disabled and see if they change anything
edge://flags/
Also a related article:
vdocipher.com
/blog/microsoft-playready-drm-infrastructure-implementation-for-premium-content/
with Interesting description:
Piracy Protection Features included with Microsoft Playready DRM
- High secure black boxed encrypted playback mechanism which prevents download of raw video. This is currently implementable with HTML5 video player making its adoption smooth. The biggest plus points of Playready DRM now is it natively supports HTML5 video player and DASH streaming protocol. HTML5 video player is increasingly favoured by browsers over Flash-based video playback. In the absence of native HTML5 DRMs content providers had to get users to install a Silverlight plugin or use the Adobe Access DRM through Flash. Both had the negative aspect that they required users to install things to their device. Also, it produced some security risk with Flash. (which is the reason it is increasingly being phased out by browsers)
- Blocks any screen capture tools running on Windows Devices. High-quality movies are often recorded by users using screen capture tools. But use of Playready DRM ensures that no software or plugin can do so. Microsoft restricts such usage at the hardware level.
The ultimate endorsement for any Digital Rights Management system is having certifications from Hollywood studios. They have millions of dollars on the line, when they make their content available via online streaming. Hollywood’s Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem (DECE) endorses Playready’s DRM for streaming videos. Netflix and Amazon Instant Video use Playready for streaming on Edge.
HotCakeX Fantastic, disabling both flags solved both issues, thanks a lot! I did it on an Edge Insider Beta build, but I'm sure the fix applies to Dev as well. I'm crossing my fingers and hoping Microsoft won't ever remove those two flags from the code.
HotCakeX OK, so testing Dev and Canary builds, I concluded that disabling "Widevine DRM" flag fixes both issues. However, disabling "PlayReady DRM for Windows 10" blocks playback and makes the browser ask for Silverlight plugin, which is nonsense as it will be discontinued and HTML5 is the standard nowadays.
Once more, thanks for the help. I was afraid I would have to go back to using Chrome, but fortunately this is not the case because your suggestion promptly solved my problem 🙂
At first playback on Microsoft Edge worked fine, and then video suddenly went black (audio continued to play). Google Chrome played movies without an issue.
Clearing site data, restarting pc or using private mode would not help. However setting "PlayReady DRM for Windows 10" to disabled and "Widevine DRM" to enabled on edge://flags/ fixed the issue and now everything works fine on Prime Video, HBO Go and Netflix.
HotCakeX Thanks for the suggestion!
If you have a similar problem, you may want to experiment with different combinations of these flags.
- You're welcome!
