[SOLVED] slackware_and_youtube_rented_movies

_peter · 06-07-2015, 07:22 AM

having struggled to watched rented ($) movies from youtube on plain vanilla slackware 32bits in chrome or firefox, I will share what I have done as root:

Code:

rm -Rf /home/$USER/.adobe
wget http://mirrors.slackware.com/slackwa....14-i486-3.txz
wget http://mirrors.slackware.com/slackwa...0-noarch-1.txz
installpkg  hal-0.5.14-i486-3.txz 
installpkg  hal-info-20091130-noarch-1.txz
chmod +x etc/rc.d/rc.hald
/etc/rc.d/rc.hald start

Not sure this is the optimal but it seems to work for me. There are numerous topics in this forum on *hal* but I couldn't figure what to do to solve my issue of youtube movie playback on slackware. Hopefully it is useful to fellow slackers

https://forums.adobe.com/message/4594136

dugan · 06-07-2015, 10:23 AM

Thanks! I seem to remember hearing that it helps with Amazon videos too.

I'll update the Slackware FAQ.

ReaperX7 · 06-07-2015, 11:12 AM

You can also install hal-flash from SBo which installs the required libhal.so used for DRM. The daemon isn't really used or useful by modern systems.

T3slider · 06-07-2015, 02:31 PM

I haven't rented a movie from YouTube/Google Play for a few months now but the last time I tried it worked fine on 64-bit 14.1 without HAL using Alien Bob's chromium + chromium-widevine (+chromium-pepperflash but not sure if that was actually used for YouTube).

_peter · 06-07-2015, 04:44 PM

thanks ReaperX7, I have seen http://slackbuilds.org/repository/14...tem/hal-flash/ but was afraid of

Quote:

This library does NOT provide a full HAL interface or daemon

yeah Alien Bob's chromium + chromium-widevine are probably more seamless than installing deprecated packages, will try.

ReaperX7 · 06-07-2015, 08:34 PM

HAL as a whole was used originally for what udev, upower, udisks, pm-utilities, and such utilities to manage the system. The library libhal.so is still used to provide DRM media resolvement in modern systems, so you don't need the redundant daemon working to duplicate functionality now done by other systems. Libhal.so is technically all you need.

Pepper flash was supposed to absorb the functionality of libhal.so so that you wouldn't have to rely upon it. The problem is Mozilla wasn't interested in supporting the PPAPI interface. I'm also not sure how much of libhal.so's functionality was absorbed by pepper flash.

Bertman123 · 06-07-2015, 08:39 PM

I've had no problems using hal to watch amazon prime videos as well as videos that require you to sign in using your ISP. Works just fine with firefox.

T3slider · 06-07-2015, 10:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ReaperX7

Pepper flash was supposed to absorb the functionality of libhal.so so that you wouldn't have to rely upon it.

No. Pepperflash is just a PPAPI version of Adobe Flash and nothing more. You could implement DRM in flash but that would have worked fine with NPAPI as well. Widevine is Google's solution to DRM for HTML5 video.

Quote:

Originally Posted by ReaperX7

The problem is Mozilla wasn't interested in supporting the PPAPI interface. I'm also not sure how much of libhal.so's functionality was absorbed by pepper flash.

Firefox uses (will use? Does this actually work yet on Linux?) a sandboxed, closed-source CDM (content decryption module) from Adobe to provide DRM-locked HTML5 video via EME (encrypted media extensions). I haven't tried this yet in Firefox but it's a brand new feature (announced ages ago to much criticism ideologically but only released recently). I don't know how well it works or which services support it yet. Google has a headstart on support with widevine because it was released quite a while ago while Mozilla/Adobe dragged their feet.