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Glowtape
Brass Contributor
Jun 07, 2020

PlayReady DRM flag? What does the Default setting actually do? Re: Edge causing GPU driver crashes.

Lately, Edge Dev is crashing the GPU driver left and right, and since experimenting with the new hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling, it even takes the whole system down.   Reason for this is video...
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Girofox
Copper Contributor
Jun 21, 2020

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



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