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I recently installed Fedora 14 on my home PC so I have a dual boot system running windows and linux. I probably would primarily use Linux on that machine as its older and Linux manages its resources MUCH better than Windows does, BUT I'm a bit of a Netflix junky and from what I've read there isn't currently a solution that allows for Netflix to work on Linux. Evidently Moonlight (which as I understand is supposed to be like silverlight) is missing a key piece of functionality. So is there really no solution?
With Microsoft abandoning Silverlight, Netflix has made strong efforts to switch their video delivery software to HTML5. An HTML5 video player does not need a browser plugin like Adobe Flash or Microsoft Silverlight to work. However, in order to stream videos, Netflix requires their delivered content to remain secure. This is achieved in HTML5 via a browser plugin known as Network Security Service. Finally both of these components are mature enough.
The answers to your questions are here: -on-ubuntu-is-here.htmlBy adding a ppa you can get a special blend of wine and firefox that will run the netflix videoplayer (silverlight). It's 3 commands and although I personally have had some trouble on the 64-bit kernel it works well on a 32-kernel. If you have further questions or you get it running on a 64-bit kernel let me know.
You can watch netflix inside of a webbrowser simply by changing your user agent. Normally your browser sends a user agent to the server when accessing a website containing your browser version and your operating system. It looks something like this:
You can fake your user agent using a browser extension. When your user agent says that you're on Windows, you can watch Netflix inside of your browser even though you are on a Linux system. I'm not sure why Netflix doesn't want Linux users to watch their content but it works!
Since I update my setup this morning, video streaming (youtube/netflix/amazon on brave, jellyfin on personal server, etc...) does not work.
Video is charging but never start.
Here you can see the list off my recently installed/updated package:
I'm on Gnome-X11, 2 or 3 days ago after updating , might be one of these - malcontent, gnome-control-center, flatpak, xdg-desktop-portal, I found the same problem but solve the issue by install pipewire and remove pulseaudio.
So the problem is not pulsaudio itself but a side package having conflict?
I will test pipewire, if it works it only bypass the problem. I have no need to exclusively use pulseaudio but someone else may be.
on the problematic situation. This can happen if wireplumber is started with pulse installed as wireplumber will take devices away from pulseaudio. IF this only surfaced with the update log from your OP it's likely some changes in xdg-desktop-portal or so (or knowing GNOME they might logically hard require pipewire now)
It's not a bug but also not something to generally fix. You should be able to restore normal operation by masking wireplumber "ideally" wireplumber should be configurable to not grab audio devices and just handle screensharing but not sure whether that's possible
For the wireplumber case it happened to introduce a config that allows you to disable it from trying to handle ALSA devices where I'm not yet entirely sure whether that's sufficient, if you wanted to experiment with this copy your /usr/share/wireplumber/main.lua.d/50-alsa-config.lua to /etc/wireplumber/main.lua.d/50-alsa-config.lua and set alsa_monitor.enabled = false
Thanks it works !!! As a long time archlinux user (user not expert) i try to keep my setup as close as possible to rep and avoiding any hack that could mess any futur upgrade. So threre was wayland but i decide to use xorg until kde dev give a clear signal that wayland is 100% working (like turning it default) and now pipewire, wireplumber.... So what is the status of pipewire ? is pulseaudio legacy and you can go on pipewire with everything working 100% or is it still work in progress (like wayland) and in this case, i rather like to wait. In fact, i don't understand if pipewire is the successor of pulseaudio (an so will remplace it as default for kde) or it's just another similar project to adress some limitation.
Masking the service is a hacky workaround, not a solution in any way. You need to either go back to pipewire-media-session or switch completely to pipewire. Leaving your system in limbo with no pipewire session manager is not one of the options.
In the past, many Linux users had to run virtualization software in order to use the online silverlight based charting software. Now, with the work from Erich Hoover a patch for wine has been created in order to have the propietary silverlight installed. It's silly because it was intended for use with netflix - but with all of this said TC2000 v12 works, and quite decently I might add.
Essentially what it does is install a firefox through wine. After this, you can run the netflix-desktop app, which how you'll view netflix videos if you're using it for what it was intended, or view TC2000 charts...
You'll notice that the browser opens in full screen mode by default, but by pressing f11 you make it into a standard window if need be. You'll also need a way to type in the tc2000 url. This can be done by pressing "ctrl+t" to open a new tab, and then by right cliking to the right of the new tab and checking off navigation toolbar.
Thanks for sharing this info, as I've been wanting to run TC2000 on Linux for a long time. This looked promosing for Ubuntu. Running Ubuntu Precise. Got it started up after it crashed on the first install and it did work for a bit and then sort of froze up. Then it did nothing when trying to start netflix-desktop the second time. Uninstalled, removed the repo, reinstalled repo and appliation. Tried again and still does nothing. It did work the first time. Oh, well. Maybe others will have better luck. Wine is tricky to deal with has been my experience.
Is anyone out there????? I am running Ubuntu Linux on my desktop. Not because I chose it. but because an exboyfriend installed it. I need to download tc2000 but am not able to download Silverlight succesfully.
I have been able to get tc2000 working on 2 linux mint machines. Was not able to get it using directions of akspeculatioins (problems with installing the Hoover ppa, etc). However, doing some google research on hoover led to the pipelight ppa which does the essentially the same function as the hoover. Go to -team.de/cms-pipelight-installation.html and follow the directions. Using Mint, I used the Ubuntu directions. Copied and pasted the teminal commands into a terminal window. When finished, opened my browser to tc2000.com and the silverlight plugin auto installed, then tc2000 opened. Takes less than 5 minutes. Installed on Mint 13 laptop and desktop. Desktop was originally Mint 9 and encountered some problems (can't remember details) so I upgraded 9 to 13 as it had been 3 to 5 years since I installed 9 and 9 is no longer supported.
The url link in the previous posts, -team.de/cms/pipelight-installation.htm no longer works but forwards to a site about Wine Staging. It may be that Wine Staging will do the same functionality as pipelight - I do not know. I do not currently desire to experiment with it. I did locate the following site which is an archive of the pipelight url and has the commands and instructions to install pipelight and the silverlight plugin --
At this page, select one of the Pipelight Installation links and then click on the link for the flavor of linux you have. It will bring up a page with the commands to run in a terminal which will add the pipelight ppa repository to your linux OS and install pipelight. Follow the instructions to add and enable the silverlight plugin. (In my case, when you type the command, silverlight was with a lower case "s").
I had tried and failed to manually add the pipelight ppa repository to my Linux Mint 18 software sources. The commands listed in the above archive worked. All this takes less than 5 minutes to complete and get TC2000 up and running in your web browser.
At one time, accessing Netflix on Linux was difficult. A specific version of Google Chrome was needed, complete with Encrypted Media Extension (EME) support. Chrome additionally required a specific version of Mozilla Network Security Services and a User Agent Switcher extension. (Changing the User Agent is a method of tricking a website that you're using a different operating system or browser).
Today, all you need to do is open netflix.com in Google Chrome and log into your account. Within seconds you'll be able to seamlessly watch Netflix content. Additionally, you have the option to turn Netflix into a Desktop Application via Google Chrome's Web-App tools (see below).
No additional software or plugins are available for Chrome to stream Netflix videos. Simply visit the site as explained above and enjoy. Other Chromium-based browsers should also work, but your mileage may vary.
If Google Chrome isn't to your taste, rely on it as a backup when your preferred browser won't play Netflix. Usually this is only a short-term hiccup that can be fixed a day or so later with a new update.
But if you need to access a Netflix library from another country (such as Netflix US), you will need a VPN. A virtual private network that supports Netflix lets you fool the website as to your whereabouts. So, if you're in France, select a VPN server in the USA to access Netflix's US library.
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