The only downside is that this will break 4k streaming, since it depends on PlayReady, but I can easily live with that, haha.Amazon has had its Prime Video app available on Windows for a while now, and it’s about time macOS users get access to the vast catalogue directly from their home screen.Īmazon’s Prime Video app is now available to download for free from the App Store, giving macOS users the option to download content for offline streaming. So turning off PlayReady makes Edge using Widevine exclusively and the issues are gone. That's why turning off hardware acceleration also can solve the problem, because this disables a lot of DRM features as well. But since it's not well implemented on many streaming platforms they struggle and give you all the above issues.

Now most of the streaming platforms are optimized to use Google's Widevine DRM technology, whereas Edge also supports Microsoft's PlayReady DRM by default (on Windows 10/11). the limitation to only watch the same video on Amazon Prime simultaneously on not more than 2 different devices). Go to edge://flags/#edge-playready-drm-win10 set it to 'Disabled', restart and enjoy your streams :)īackground: The big streaming vendors all use DRM (Digital Rights Management) to control how their content is shown, especially in context with user rights (e.g. So in short, here's how to solve broken streams and black screen casts on Edge with hardware acceleration enabled (at least it worked for me): Researching how these streaming vendors manage DRM did the trick and the fix is so simple that I almost couldn't believe, lol Well, after a lot of experimenting with different Edge flags, graphic driver setups, installing video codecs and so on, I finally found the solution. The only known workaround was turning off hardware acceleration, but I wasn't willing to accept, especially since Chrome has no issues with streaming/casting when acceleration is on.

Like many others I also experienced the issue of broken video streams and black screen phenomena when trying to cast (especially Chromecast) Amazon Prime, Netflix etc.

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