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No PlayReady visible with the Chromium Edge
mafein
I'm guessing you have "PlayReady Hardware DRM support: flase" in about://gpu page.
I don't know about PlayReady requirements but your hope is that's a missing requirement on the driver side, and thus with an driver update you'll be set.
EDIT: I've now seen the screenshot you posted in the other thread and it appears you have Hardware DRM support , but you lack Direct Composition.
Too bad the latest Intel drivers for 3000 iGPU is from 2015...
Might be worth trying again with the Nvidia GPU and using the latest Nvidia drivers (from 2018) rather than Dell's OEM drivers. This way you might loose some custom vendor features, probably the ability to switch graphics too...
https://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverResults.aspx/132841/en-us
As for selecting the nvidia gpu for edge in windows 10 you'd need to go to Settings -> System -> Display -> Graphics Settings (small writing, towards the bottom) -> then Browse for Edge (if you have shortcut on desktop you can select that).
After you added Edge to that list you can select which GPU should be used for that process. Application restart is needed if it wasn't closed during the GPU preference selection.
Dear Coddy , thanks for your detailed reply. I did the things you said but Intel is the main GPU, I can see playready under about:gpu, but in https://bitmovin.com/demos/drmplayready does not appear, playready appears only in the legacy Edge. (See the attached files)
I had the same problem with Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Brave, Vivaldi and Yandex. But what was interesting is Opera and Yandex worked fine with both mubi.com movies and https://bitmovin.com/demos/drm video (and showing no DRM in the bitmovin website), however, after some hours Widevine got activated and mubi.com videos were stuttering as well as the bitmovin video.
My humble theory is:
- It has nothing to do with direct composition. Because I maniplated Chrome by setting --disable-direct-composition=0 to shortcut and I had direct composition "true", but still the same issue.
- New Edge does not inherit the functionalities of the Legacy Edge (at least in my case/PC).
- New Edge is not supporting Playready on my PC.
- Widevine is blocking the video here : https://bitmovin.com/demos/drm. But when I disable the Widevine I can watch the video in that link without problem, but then I cannot watch the mubi.com movies at all (not even stuttering).
Cheers
Ferhat
