Some feedback on having done my first serious ISO regarding video codecs and PlayReady DRM

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First of all great job on the app, for the most part I think its a well made tool for the job, but now on to my report.

I used a 1809 LTSC en-US iso, I had a normal unmodded install on a VM, and my ntlite install on my PC, I then noticed, playready DRM content was broken, for those who dont know this is required to get netflix above 720p in windows 10. It is better than the rubbish widevine DRM.

Netflix was giving me an error code, when I went to their troubleshooting page it translated to upgrade to a newer version of windows 10 which initially made me think LTSC is obsolete on netflix. However it then played fine on the VM when I tried it.

On the ntlite ISO I only removed non english, german, french languages and the 2 codec features which are both marked as "safe" because they obsolete code. One of them is the intel codecs, the other is the video compression manager, I enabled both at once and it was fixed, I expect it was probably the VCM as the culprit, so my suggestion is to no longer mark it as safe to remove.

The other feedback is when selecting windows update to notify as a default setting, it doesnt work, windows is configured in its default mode in policy editor to do automatic updates, although it didnt actually immediatly carry out updates so maybe the tweak was done in a different way, if so I would like to know which way it was done, thanks.

The rest of the iso customisation worked a treat.
 
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Thanks for the feedback.
OK, adding VCM to the Netflix compatibility option (enabled by default).

Regarding the Windows Update, agreed that the settings portion needs a bit of an update for newer Windows 10 versions, as Microsoft keeps on changing Windows Update settings due to various reasons.
Can't promise when, but it's on the top list of todo tasks, depends on the relative importance.
 
might be worth checking with other streaming services like amazon prime(other streaming services are availible, hahaha) etc because as they are usually short monthly contracts people are hopping from one to another fairly frequently. all bases covered then. if there are differences rather than having a Compatibility option for each one put them all together in 1 option.
 
Clanger I can do the testing no problem as I also am on amazon prime video. Netflix will still play in widevine mode without VCM (which is used in all non microsoft browsers or in edge if you manually turn off playready in experimental flags) which may be why this is not reported before .
 
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