Broke My Netflix on Ubuntu 13.04

[ernestj]

I was using Netflix on Ubuntu for the past several months.

I do not know what I did, but all of a sudden it asked me if I wanted to update Wine.

I said yes and then it was all over.

Now, I can get Netflix to open, however, when I play a move, all I get is sound and no video.

I tried to remove the install.

And then re-install it, using the instructions form this link:

http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/ope...untu-1210/4019

But still not working,

Any ideas????

Thanks,

Ernie

[kernelmanic]

A Silverlight upgrade breaks all previous version of netflix player.

At this point, I can not stream or play anything on netfix. Seems that there was an 'update' to silverlight that breaks all
prior versions of netflix players. One _must_ upgrade silverlight
in order to view netflix. All it says on netflix is


"you are almost ready to watch" blahblah "first upgrade silverlight in order to enhance" blah blah "viewing quality"

gee - it was working yesterday, and the quality was peachy.


There is no way to say 'no thanks' - either upgrade or you can not view .
I called netflix support, and there is no way to get around this.


I tried to 'install' the version of silverlight that netflix was pushing
on me, but there are some problems, and also, it listed on mozilla's blocklist.
Maybe I have to upgrade more than once in netflix? i do not know.
Hopefully the netflix/wine-browser folks will take a look at this.


cheers,


kernelmanic

[jawilljr]

I got the same message earlier...here is what I did to fix it:

rm -Rf ~/.wine-browser

Restart netflix-desktop.

That resets the netflix-desktop settings.

Jerry

[kernelmanic]

Yay.

I moved/renamed .wine-browser in case I needed something from it, but this did the trick.
Thanks !

@jawilljr - I use bodhi, so I am not on this forum often. Am I supposed to click on something so that you get more karma or beans or stackflow or reputation or votes , etc etc ?

[ernestj]

I emailed the developer and he helped me.
The fix above works.

[cfmackey]

I got the same message earlier...here is what I did to fix it:

rm -Rf ~/.wine-browser

Restart netflix-desktop.

That resets the netflix-desktop settings.

Jerry

This solution worked for me, even after I had pushed the Silverlight update. Should be a viable fix until Microsoft decides to throw another one our way.

[baddison1]

I got the same message earlier...here is what I did to fix it:

rm -Rf ~/.wine-browser

Restart netflix-desktop.

That resets the netflix-desktop settings.

Jerry

Yup!! This worked for me also! Thank you very much.

[SaoNigar]

Excellent !
I did the job for me too,
Thank you very much

[Lightning Dragon]

Hi,

Just wanted to say this solved the problem for me. My problem, though, was a bit more extreme. It broke all my Wine and Ubuntu install. I couldn't open anything without it restarting Ubuntu to the log in page. Once I did the above, everything was back to normal.

Thanks for sharing!

[doucette-4]

I'm having the same issue after upgrading to 13.04 (sound works fine but no video). I tried the solution posted above, but it doesn't seem to have worked. I've also tried completely purging netflix-desktop, removing the ppa, and re-installing everything again, but that didn't change anything either.

Is there anything that I can check or do? Many thanks!