Netflix works

[mooreted]

Followed the directions but it keeps asking me to install Silverlight. User agent is set to IE9. Maybe I'll try another UA.

[mooreted]

Nope, tried all the Windows ones. No go.

[uRock]

I had the same problem, I had to look in Unity for Chrome Beta. Installing the Beta doesn't remove the Chrome Stable.

[mooreted]

Ah ha! Needed custom string:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/38.0.2114.2 Safari/537.36

[user1397]

You haven't looked hard enough. There are lots of discussions about Netflix. Search the forums for "pipelight" to see a bunch of them.

I guess I should've clarified, I haven't seen any netflix threads about this latest development, except for this one of course.

[SeijiSensei]

Your list looks a bit light.

I guess I already had all those i386 packages installed. Maybe they came along with pipelight, or maybe they were installed for some other packages. Someday we'll all be on the x64 platform, and we can leave all this duplication behind. By then Netflix will be using some system based on HTML5, and probably with a proprietary DRM layer that they'll never port to Linux.

Park and Watson said Netflix would replace Silverlight on Windows and Mac desktops and notebooks with three HTML5 extensions -- Netflix collectively dubbed them "HTML5 Premium Video Extensions" -- to allow JavaScript to generate media streams, lock down the content with digital rights management (DRM) anti-piracy technology, and encrypt/decrypt the JavaScript-to-Netflix-server communications.

Netflix has already begun using two of the three extensions -- the exception is "WebCrypto," which handles JavaScript encryption -- in Google's Chrome OS on Samsung's Chromebook. Once WebCrypto is supported by the Chrome browser -- the foundation of Chrome OS -- Netflix will start testing the Silverlight substitute on Windows and OS X.

I notice that one operating system is glaringly absent from this discussion.

[kostkon]

I guess I already had all those i386 packages installed. Maybe they came along with pipelight, or maybe they were installed for some other packages. Someday we'll all be on the x64 platform, and we can leave all this duplication behind. By then Netflix will be using some system based on HTML5, and probably with a proprietary DRM layer that they'll never port to Linux.

I notice that one operating system is glaringly absent from this discussion.

??

But Chrome supports that (EME) already on Linux, that's why it is working now and you don't need silverlight anymore. Actually, EME is a W3C standard.

[mooreted]

I had the same problem, I had to look in Unity for Chrome Beta. Installing the Beta doesn't remove the Chrome Stable.

Yeah, that perplexed me for a few minutes.

[SeijiSensei]

But Chrome supports that (EME) already on Linux, that's why it is working now and you don't need silverlight anymore. Actually, EME is a W3C standard.

I don't want to use Chrome. I want to use Firefox. Have a solution for that?

Your list looks a bit light.

Update:
I just installed wine on a machine that had no version of it before. It brought in all those :i386 packages to support 32-bit Windows applications. From the WINE FAQ:

2.5. Is there a 64 bit Wine?

Yes. 64 bit Wine has been available on Linux since 1.2, and most major distros now package it for users. Normally, installation should be as simple as installing the Wine package for your distribution through your package manager. Check the Downloads page.

A couple of things to note:

32 bit Wine runs on both 32-bit and 64-bit Linux/Unix installations. 16-bit and 32-bit Windows applications will run on it.

64-bit Wine runs only on 64 bit installations, and at present only on Linux. It requires the installation of 32 bit libraries in order to run 32 bit Windows applications. Both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows applications (should) work with it; however, there are still many bugs.

[emphasis mine]

Installing pipelight which depends on wine-compholio thus brings in all those i386 packages you saw.

[sammiev]

Thanks to the following link, I have Netflix working in Ubuntu.

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2014/08/n...upport-plugins

Thanks for the link and just today had time to try it.

Works great.