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Old 12-28-2016, 09:01 AM   #16
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Your filesystem needs to have extended attributes enabled, as explained in my earlier blog posts.
Some sites apparently use a version of DRM protection that requires Microsoft signed driver certificates to function, something that will never get added to wine/pipelight for legal reasons.

A quick command, taken from one of the URLs below, will tell you whether you have xattr enabled or not (the ext4 filesystem has it enabled by default, while tmpfs like found on a Live OS will not):
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touch ~/.xattr_test && setfattr -n 'user.testAttr' -v 'attribute value' ~/.xattr_test &> /dev/null; getfattr ~/.xattr_test 2>&1 | grep -q user.testAttr && echo 'It works!' || echo 'No extended attributes!'; rm ~/.xattr_test &> /dev/null
See:
https://answers.launchpad.net/pipeli...uestion/247606
https://bugs.launchpad.net/pipelight/+bug/1235918
https://bugs.launchpad.net/pipelight...18/comments/26
 
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Old 12-28-2016, 10:49 AM   #17
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Hi Eric and thanks for the remark,

all of my partitions are ext4 and in fstab i have everywhere defaults.
Executing
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touch ~/.xattr_test && setfattr -n 'user.testAttr' -v 'attribute value' ~/.xattr_test &> /dev/null; getfattr ~/.xattr_test 2>&1 | grep -q user.testAttr && echo 'It works!' || echo 'No extended attributes!'; rm ~/.xattr_test &> /dev/null
gives
Code:
It works!
 
Old 12-30-2016, 02:17 AM   #18
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Thanks to all, who tried to help me

Hi again,

finally i have good news to report . I got it working, although not in the browser i had expected. I am not quite sure what actually did the trick but i will try to explain what i did.
Yesterday i installed Chromium55 and Widevine-plugin55. I enabled the Widevine plugin but it was still not working.
After that i read the posts, quoted by Alien_Bob and tried out those commands after closing all browsers:
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rm ~/.config/wine-wininet-installer.accept-license -> there was nothing to delete
rm -rf ~/.wine-pipelight -> the folder was deleted
I restarted Firefox and reinstalled Silverlight. Then i was trying again with no success. Suddenly i tried it out in Chromium and it was working, without User Agent Switcher. I was presenting myself as Linux OS and nevertheless the stream started (with subtitles and sound). I was astonished. I personally think, that those two removals solved my problem after closing all browser windows.
Now i can watch those streams. We will see what would happen upon a next update.

I read somewhere that Firefox50 would support Widevine built in it, if you configure it with a special option at build time. I would like to try to upgrade my Firefox and see what the result would be. Is there a way upgrade the browser in an easy way? There was a time when Alien_Bob was creating such SlackBuild-packages and i was easily installing them, but i cannot find them anymore.
 
Old 12-30-2016, 02:26 AM   #19
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I read somewhere that Firefox50 would support Widevine built in it, if you configure it with a special option at build time. I would like to try to upgrade my Firefox and see what the result would be. Is there a way upgrade the browser in an easy way? There was a time when Alien_Bob was creating such SlackBuild-packages and i was easily installing them, but i cannot find them anymore.
ruario, one of the developers of vivaldi (and a forum member and fellow Slackware user), has developed some scripts for him to download the latest versions of various browsers so he can compare their usage against vivaldi. Luckily, he is a kind hearted man and has provided those scripts to us. Here's his latest-firefox script. It will check for the latest version, and if there is a newer one, it will download it, convert it to a Slackware package, and, if desired, it will also install/upgrade that package to your system (use the -i option as root).
 
Old 12-30-2016, 02:27 AM   #20
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I read somewhere that Firefox50 would support Widevine built in it, if you configure it with a special option at build time. I would like to try to upgrade my Firefox and see what the result would be. Is there a way upgrade the browser in an easy way? There was a time when Alien_Bob was creating such SlackBuild-packages and i was easily installing them, but i cannot find them anymore.
I can confirm that the Firefox 50.1.0 in slackware-current can play Netflix videos using Widevine. Firefox will download the Widevine CDM if you have enabled DRM support in the preferences. Also you have to select a custom User Agent because Netflix currently does not think that Firefox for Linux is a supported platform.

Edit: FYI: I never provided custom Firefox packages.

Last edited by Alien Bob; 12-30-2016 at 02:30 AM.
 
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Old 12-30-2016, 03:57 AM   #21
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I just downloaded the latest Firefox version 50.1 from the current distribution from one mirror. Although i enabled DRM in the settings i am still getting the same error as before. But i will leave now this topic aside. I have to apologize to Alien_Bob. It was probably a confusion of mine.
 
  


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