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Can't get 1080p playback and screenshots are black on Prime Video
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 🙂
I have been having an issue with the Amazon Prime videos flickering to black and almost instantly back to the video several times as the video buffers and it steps up the resolution until it gets to HD 1080p. I found the flags worked differently for me. Disabling PlayReady DRM for Windows 10 made the behavior go away. The Widevine DRM and the PlayReady Experimental HEVC Decoding flags made no difference Default, Disabled or Enabled. Disabling Widevine resulted in the Silverlight prompt.
Great findings! hope developers see this and disable that flag by default until they have a fix for it.
You're welcome, anytime 🙂
