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).

For Netflix try this:
1. Install the latest Chrome Beta (this won't work with Firefox, yet).
2. Change its useragent string to 3. Make sure that it says that you prefer HTML5 in your Netflix settings
4. Watch Netflix.

I had to set it to Firefox 15. Think this was what I used:https://answers.launchpad.net/pipelight/+faq/2351

Some agent profile plugins work better than others, too: http://pipelight.net/cms/installation-user-agent.html

When I'm back in front of my box with pipelight, I'll copy what works for me.

I'm curious if the html5 solution works. I'd like to be able to watch things and play WoW at the same time ;^)

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

Mine is working in Firefox as Firefox 24/Windows.

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.

This is the user agent overrider I'm using: https://github.com/muzuiget/user_agent_overrider

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.

remove the .wine-pipelight & it will reinstall itself.

Out of curiosity, do you pass the checks at this site? http://fds-team.de/pipelight/

https://bugs.launchpad.net/pipelight/+bug/1240150 That seems to be the problem, IMO. :)

Already tried that, but thanks for the suggestion.

I had to switch UA widgets to User Agent Overrider

steps to install in slack14 x86_64 over at http://bournetoraiseshell.com/articl...31117151718282

Windows and chrome 34 is the only combination that passes the test at,

http://fds-team.de/pipelight/

but I still get the DRM error at Netflix.

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:
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.

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.

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