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Playready DRM Windows 10
- Thanks for your kind help and so the team's.
This is unbelievable. I have 2 laptops. One of them is for gaming and second one is for work. Gaming laptop using multi-gpu and AMD is dedicated and work laptop is basic AMD. This is how i could not see the problem's source. My mistake is just focused to software.
According to your tip, i checked the gpu, AMD is dedicated for default on my gaming laptop so that not able to run 1080p. I tried to disable but could not solve the problem. I will read some more information about this matter.
After the team's solution, i checked with my girlfriend's laptop which is using nvidia and see that all is fine with 1080p.
Now i have different problem and i hope can find solution.
By the way, hey Coddy looks like your right 🙂
I am so appreciate to see such a this help Deleted.
Thanks again to all team and you.
Regard
Hello Deleted , I still didn't get any responses from you. I have Intel Graphics 3000, which is Sandy and Edge Chromium disables the direct composition with Sandy. Is there a workaround? Or will that issue be solved in next updates of Edge?
mafein Thanks for following-up, and my apologies for the delay. Our media engineer took a look and said:
"Regarding your Direct Composition problem, your Intel GPU is not allowed to use Direct Composition. I see that you have up to 3 GPU devices connected, so you could try designating Microsoft Edge to run on a different device. Please also ensure that the GPU driver version is current and update if necessary."
Hopefully that helps!
Fawkes (they/them)
Project & Community Manager - Microsoft Edge
- Find where the problem is, enter edge://version/ in the browser, find the default folder, then completely close the edge program, delete the default folder, and reopen the browser, it should be the edge configuration file and PlayerReady DRM happened Conflicts, remember to backup a bookmark data before operation, because this operation may cause data loss，sorry my english is not very good, this is the translated answer.My PlayReady DRM and Netflix are working fine now
- I have the same problem, and now I can't install back to the old version of Legacy Edge ，and the problem is still not fixed
- Problem solved! I visited https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftedge/forum/all/how-can-i-revert-to-old-edge-version/30ab05e3-e4a5-4b0a-b6a3-84754742344f?page=1&rtAction=1592992837485 and could restore legacy edge which was overwritten by a windows update for Edge Chromium. Now i have both Edge Beta and Legacy Edge and PlayReady DRM works in both browsers! 🙂
Maybe you can try enable "override software rendering list". I tested again and unfortunately my old laptop has very high cpu usage with HD 1080p on Amazon Prime with only Widevine enabled. PlayReady DRM Only Microsoft old Edge browser plays video accelerated HD 1080p with PlayReady DRM on my laptop does not work with Edge Chromium anymore. Is it possible that the new Edge Chromium is not as tightly integrated into Windows as Legacy Edge?
Thanks for the effort Girofox. But as I have written above, I cannot see PlayReady activated using https://bitmovin.com/demos/drm. Please see the pictures. The issue is the incompatibility of the new chromium Edge with my GPU which is an old one. That's why direct composition is disabled by default by the edge.
   
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
There is a workaround! You need to enable either playready drm or widevine drm by using Edge flags (see 2nd picture below). And for video accelerated decoding you need to enable "override software rendering list". To test if drm video streams work you can use the website https://bitmovin.com/demos/drm . Netflix uses playready (for highest bitrate) while amazon prime uses widevine so you need to disable the other unused drm in flags. To get 4K Netflix you also need the HEVC video extensions from Microsoft: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/hevc-video-extensions-from-device-manufacturer/9n4wgh0z6vhq Nevertheless only the Netflix UWP App delivers the highest bitrate (you can see resolution bitrate with CTRL + Shift + Alt + Q ). For example I get over 5000 kBit/s at 1920x1080 pixels for movie Snowpiercer but only 2800 kBit/s at 1920x1080 in Edge.
Widevine
Edge flags for NetflixEdge flags for Amazon Prime Video
Hello Deleted, thanks for dealing with this issue and taking it serious. I have 2 GPUs Intel HD3000 is the main one, which without it the computer doesn't work, and Nvidia 525m. I activated Nvidia using "Choose ANGLE graphics backend" from flags, but direct compostion was still disabled. So I did a workaround by adding --disable-direct-composition=0 to shortcut, it enabled the direct composition but still stuttering was as before.
I moved the issue to here to get more responses: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/discussions/no-playready-visible-with-the-chromium-edge/td-p/1431587
