HBO Max leaves Linux users hanging, we hope only for now

HBO Max bans Linux

Add up and go on. Linux users are usually happy with the software we have available: if we don't have Photoshop, we use GIMP; if we don't have Sony Vegas, we use one of the many video editors out there for Linux; and so on with a lot of software. The problem is that sometimes there are no alternatives, and we already had an example with Disney +, when it was not available at launch to Linux users. Fortunately, this changed more or less soon, but now HBO Max He has resurrected old ghosts again.

So and cone informs Ars Technica, a reader of their medium advised them that HBO Max stopped working a couple of weeks ago for Linux users, something that published Dan Gillmor on his personal blog. And the problem is not that it fails only in Firefox, for example, but that it does not work in any browser, regardless of the distribution we are using. If we try it, right now a message appears saying «We are having trouble playing this video. Please try again later«.

HBO Max stops working on Linux due to Widevine DRM

As in the case of Disney +, it is again a problem related to DRM, in this case Widevine DRM which tries to protect the content of the platform so that it is not pirated. At this time, it has stopped recognizing Linux as a known and valid platform. As reported in the middle, something that I personally would not know for not using that type of services in Spain, the same problem happened with CBS, but it was miraculously solved after complaints from users.

From the looks of it, HBO Max's problem with Linux is the same as that experienced with CBS, but the former have not yet responded to user complaints and their service is still not working on our computers. Specifically, the problem is that Verified Media Path has been activated on the Widevine server, and that has caused it to stop working on the kernel-based systems that Linus Torvalds develops.

If so, the solution is simple: disable the VMP. If they decide not to, Linux users will not be able to see HBO Max, at least in the browser, and, without being a user of the service and without testing it myself, I doubt if it will be possible through third-party software, such as with a Kodi addon. In any case, if you are a user of HBO Max on Linux and it has stopped working for you, you know why. To wait, to go to Windows or to leave the platform. There is no other.


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  1.   Raul said

    Typical, what large companies want, monitor us to the last