1. Open a tab in Safari and go to the Netflix site.
2. Go to the Safari menu and select Settings for this Website.
3. In the pop up window select Auto-Play and Allow All Auto Play.
Try again..
Btw, you won't find any drm remove/switch off switches that are publicly known. To be able to show content is a right granted to you by the content delivery, and they want to see if you can do it safely, seen from the perspective of delivery. So you need to adhere to the standards
I remember to have had similar things on Windows+Firefox. No matter what website, no video. It plays, but black. It was like it was overlayed with something, because going full screen and back fast, or start/stopping it fast, somehow helped for this one view. Also while going full screen and back, I could see some parts of the video flashing on the sides..Next view, may be - may be not - black.
There, switching off hardware acceleration helped, too. Until it started to show the same behavior after a short period of working, too. Then switching it on again helped. Also, switching off and switching on while video played.
I think, then I switched off the settings flag to use some specific codec (like "always use .264" = off ) in my browsers settings. The problem went away after some system updates or some codec installations. ... May be there's a codec pack for Macs?
Your next steps could be:
- 3b-a (if each drm video has problems..)
- Try to find out if there is a possibility to switch off/on forcefully set codec in your browser. May be Netflix will serve another codec'ed files then.