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jordanbaird / Ice

Powerful menu bar manager for macOS
https://icemenubar.app
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Ice causing DRM media playback to flicker #22

Closed danhew closed 4 months ago

danhew commented 4 months ago

The screen recording feature in Ice seems to playing havoc when streaming DRM media.

Apple TV and the Prime Video app both flicker when playing media, with the latter stating that the device doesn't meet content protection standards.

Playback of DRM media works immediately after quitting Ice

jordanbaird commented 4 months ago

Wow, that's bad. Looking at the logs, it looks like it's continuously trying and failing to capture the desktop background. It shouldn't even be trying unless menu bar appearance features are enabled, so that can be step 1 of the fix. Step 2 is a little more tricky. Screen capture is needed in order to place the desktop background over the top of the menu bar. But it obviously doesn't play nice with DRM streaming services, which I think is probably by design on Apple's part. So the question is, how do we detect when DRM video is being streamed so we can stop the screen capture?

jordanbaird commented 4 months ago

I believe I have found a fix. Once the next release comes out, let me know if the problem persists.

danhew commented 4 months ago

Nice one - thanks for the fix.