Play Netflix, Hulu, Disney Plus, and more on Raspberry Pi

In this segment, we are going to show you “How to play Media Streaming Services such as Netflix, Hulu, Disney Plus, and more on Raspberry Pi with Overclocking up to 2 GHz“

Full credit for this article goes to VPetkov.net

Software Required :

Equipment Required		Optional
	Raspberry Pi 4		Case
	SD Card		Raspberry Pi Keyboard
	Ethernet Cable		Mouse
	Power Adapter
	External HDD
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Note: Overclocking may damage your Raspberry Pi, for that reason you must have a good cooling system installed on your Raspberry Pi 4 Before overclocking.

Overclock at your own risk.

Raspbian Buster Setup on Raspberry Pi

First of all, to start this project we need to download the Raspbian Buster Image from the download link.

Formatting the SD Card

Secondly, we need the SD Card Formatter tool to format the SD card.

Flashing the SD Card

Followed by writing the image to the SD Card using: Etcher

Setting up Raspberry Pi

Finally, plug in the SD Card, connect the Ethernet Cable and Power Supply and turn it on to boot the Raspbian Buster Operating System. Follow the online instructions to complete the setup.

Overclocking Raspberry Pi 4

Maximum Overclock for Raspberry Pi 4: 2.147 GHz max clock speed GPU Frequency: 750 We are going to overclock are system from 700 MHz to 2000 MHz. Followed by changing the over voltage to 6 for maximum power.

To start with overclocking you can watch vcgendcmd to see your new clock speed from Terminal

watch -n 1 vcgencmd measure_clock arm

After that, we can go ahead and initiate a system update & dist-upgrade process to check for any available updates.

sudo apt update 
sudo apt dist-upgrade

Once the update & upgrade process finishes, we can go ahead and start overclocking our system by navigating to:

sudo nano /boot/config.txt

Scroll down to the section marked:

#uncomment to overclock the arm. 700 MHz is the default. 
#arm_freq=800

Followed by adding these lines to the document. After that, save the file with CTRL+O (press RETURN) and use CTRL+X to exit Nano.

over_voltage=6
arm_freq=2000
gpu_freq=750

Restart your Raspberry Pi.

sudo reboot

When the system starts up again, watch vcgendcmd again to see your new, faster clock speed in action:

watch -n 1 vcgencmd measure_clock arm

Method -1

SSH to your Pi (don’t run from the Pi console if you want pretty graphics :)) and run:

curl -fsSL https://pi.vpetkov.net -o ventz-media-pi
sh ventz-media-pi

This script automates the whole thing, always provides you with the latest extracted libwidevine, and makes everything much easier to maintain/update in the future.
Also, if there’s ever a problem/something changes from the Pi or Chromium side, you can just re-run the 1-line and fix everything.

Result

Method -2

Let’s start installing Media Streaming Plugin [ libwidevine]

Login to root

Navigate to root using:

sudo su
cd

Navigate to Chromium Browser folder

cd /usr/lib/chromium-browser

Download and unzip libwidevine

wget http://blog.vpetkov.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/libwidevinecdm.so_.zip 
unzip libwidevinecdm.so_.zip && chmod 755 libwidevinecdm.so

Download and unzip Chromium Media Browser

wget http://blog.vpetkov.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/chromium-media-browser.desktop.zip 
unzip chromium-media-browser.desktop.zip && mv chromium-media-browser.desktop /usr/share/applications

That’s it now we are ready to use all the Media Streaming Services on Raspberry Pi.

Followed by click on Pi icon from top Left Corner and click on Internet, Then open Chromium browser Media Edition and start Play Netflix, Hulu, Disney Plus, and more.

In conclusion

You are all set to use Raspberry Pi 4 to run all your Media Streaming Services.
If you face any issue regarding this article please share your thoughts.
Enjoy using Netflix, Hulu, Disney Plus, and more on Raspberry Pi 4. Smile (.”_”.)