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Distribution: Slackware64-current with "True Multilib" and KDE4Town.
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Netflix, Silverlight & Slackware64
I'm trying to run Netflix in Slackware64 and to that end have installed wine-pipelight and silverlight, as per Alien Bob's directions.
After installing the agent.change plug-in, also recommended by Alien Bob (Thank you very much, BTW) I tried running Firefox as windows running IE8 and received an error that ActiveX wasn't installed. I then tried it as windows running Firefox 29 and for a moment it looked like it was going to work, i.e., the movie started, then stopped and a DRM error appeared on the screen. Ditto when I tried Firefox as windows running IE11.
Has anyone been able to get past the DRM error?
Thanks.
BTW, I've tried HBO, Showtime, and now Netflix and, IMHO, Netflix is, by far, the best value (bang for the Buck).
In debian I had to delete a file in .wine & restart browser & it remade wine prefix also user-agent string has to be enabled before going to netflix site.
Also I used IE11
I used the user-agent overrider available thru Firefox Addons
Here's the agent I've been using: Firefox 15/Windows: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120427 Firefox/15.0a1
Safari/OSX: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_7_3) AppleWebKit/534.55.3 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.1.3 Safari/534.53.10
For giggles, I tried it on Windows/Firefox 29, and that worked fine, too.
Distribution: Slackware64-current with "True Multilib" and KDE4Town.
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Thanks to everyone for their suggestions, and I've tried them, but still can't past the DRM error.
@garpu,
I'm using the same user agent over "extension" and, unfortunately, nothing I've tried with it has worked.
User agent (Javascript)
Checking for Windows user agent ...okay
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/34.0.1847.137 Safari/537.36
Please note: not every user agent works on every site, try multiple ones if something doesn't work!
Silverlight (as seen by a website)
Checking for Silverlight ...okay
Version: 5.1.30214.0
Result
Result from all tests ...okay
You are ready to use Silverlight
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Originally Posted by EDDY1
remove the .wine-pipelight & it will reinstall itself.
Already tried that, but thanks for the suggestion.
What is "the DRM error"? You can try mounting the filesystem on which /home resides with the user_xattr option (and then either remount or reboot). You should make sure your filesystem supports extended attributes...this would help:
Code:
zgrep XATTR /proc/config.gz
If your filesystem does not support extended attributes you could always create a small partition elsewhere with a filesystem that does support them, and mount it at ~/.wine-pipelight.
Distribution: Slackware64-current with "True Multilib" and KDE4Town.
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Well, it turns out EDDY1 was on the right track.
In frustration I deleted all the configuration files for wine-pipelight and Firefox and started from scratch.
It worked this time, but the audio/video sync was way off.
Netflix runs better in Firefox in winXP in VirtualBox.
Last edited by cwizardone; 08-22-2014 at 12:05 AM.
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