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No PlayReady visible with the Chromium Edge
Thanks for the response Deleted, but that is a vicious cycle. Chromium Edge disables direct composition due to my GPU, but without this I cannot get Playready enables as per your response. My suggestion playready should be independent of direct composition, if not possible, direct composition should not be disabled due to GPU. Because I do have Playready with my legacy Edge version. My issue is problably that my GPU is incompatible with widevine. By the way I have no issues with watching Netflix movies. The only issue is mubi.com movies and the DASH content here: https://bitmovin.com/demos/drm .
There is a workaround I found today! Just disable either Widevine DRM or PlayReady DRM in edge://flags like in the images below. Both enabled (default flag is enabled by the way) does not work! And with override software rendering list set to enabled you even get hardware accelerated video decoding. On https://bitmovin.com/demos/drm you can check which one is enabled and below in the images you can see it works flawlessly for both DRM key systems. When you also want to stream 4K Netflix you need the HEVC video extensions from here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/hevc-video-extensions-from-device-manufacturer/9n4wgh0z6vhq
I get 1080p and over 4000 kBit/s bitrate for the movie snowpiercer in Netflix (view with CTRL + Alt + Shift + Q). Bitrate in Netflix UWP App is even higher and supports 5.1 Dolby sound.
PlayReady Hardware DRM supportedge://gpuEdge flags for NetflixWidevine