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(Solved)I have been using Netflix on Mint 16 for some months, suddenly when accessing a video I get shunted to my wallpaper, no video. I can hear sound but no vision.
Tried uninstall and install 3 times.
I know the system is working as I can access via my desktop machine.
Any help, please?
Last edited by newbeeman; 12-31-2013 at 11:48 AM.
Reason: Solved
Did you happen to update your video driver or kernel lately?
Are you running full screen?
When you can hear the audio, trying hiting "F" to drop the screen to a window. You might also try F11.
I get this problem with certain intel graphics and acceleration in netflix-desktop and with any settings using "pipelight". I have no solution, but usually I can run either windowed or fullscreen, but not both.
Are you using "netflix-desktop" or "pipelight"?
Did you happen to update your video driver or kernel lately?
Are you running full screen?
When you can hear the audio, trying hiting "F" to drop the screen to a window. You might also try F11.
I get this problem with certain intel graphics and acceleration in netflix-desktop and with any settings using "pipelight". I have no solution, but usually I can run either windowed or fullscreen, but not both.
No updates to video/kernel that I'm aware of.
Have tried full screen and F11. I did try it in Virtualbox/Win7 setup, worked, but is not convenient.
Have posted this to other forums, but to date haven't found an answer.
No updates to video/kernel that I'm aware of.
Have tried full screen and F11. I did try it in Virtualbox/Win7 setup, worked, but is not convenient.
Have posted this to other forums, but to date haven't found an answer.
An update on my problem. I have just tried accessing videos embedded in blogs. The video plays small screen but try full screen and it defaults to the start of the video.
I am totally at a loss, so would welcome some suggestions, please.
the netflix desktop
is a custom wine and custom Microsoft version of Firefox
and is a bit iffy
it is a hack on top of a hack and that is hacked to work on top of more hacks
pipelite
installs the Microsoft windows firefox plugin IN A LINUX version of firefox on a linux OS
try using pipelite
the netflix desktop
is a custom wine and custom Microsoft version of Firefox
and is a bit iffy
it is a hack on top of a hack and that is hacked to work on top of more hacks
pipelite
installs the Microsoft windows firefox plugin IN A LINUX version of firefox on a linux OS
Tried that, no improvement. Can access start Netflix, moment I select a movie it scrambles the screen, locks up.
if you are using Gnome3
you might try using xfce or lxde or KDE
Nope, using Cinnamon. and Mint 16. I did find an entry suggesting adding a ia32-libs, did that, reinstalled Netflix from the package manager. Now I get a 'Firefox cannot load XPCOM'. the only thing I can find on that is dated 2005 and version 2.0. A bit out of date as Firefox is now on 26.0.
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