Netflix?

[Lewis D.]

I am receiving the obnoxious 'We're having trouble playing Netflix on your browser. Please make sure you are using an official version of Chrome' error message in Netflix.  I've tried switching my user agent to no avail.  Does anyone have any ideas?  This is the one issue that prevents me from solely using Chromium for all my browsing.

Thanks for your time,

Lewis

[Aluísio Augusto Silva Gonçalves]

I believe this is caused by us not supporting H.264 due to its patent-encumbered status.

[Lewis]

Thanks for your reply.  Any way of adding this through an extension etc?

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[Aluísio Augusto Silva Gonçalves]

I'm afraid not.  The only way would be recompiling Chromium with proprietary codec support.
Though, maybe Netflix still supports Flash.  Do you have Flash enabled already, or if not, a Google Chrome or Chrome Portable install laying around?

Em segunda-feira, 28 de setembro de 2015 22:30:26 UTC-3, Lewis D. escreveu:

Thanks for your reply.  Any way of adding this through an extension etc?

[Lewis]

Thanks again for your time Aluísio.  I have both Chromium Portable and Google Chrome Portable installed but I am hoping to uninstall Chrome and solely use Chromium soon - Netflix is the only thing holding me back!  I'd like to avoid installing Flash, if possible.

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[Aluísio Augusto Silva Gonçalves]

Well, I was going to suggest copying Chrome's copy of Flash to Chromium Portable, so I don't know if that counts as an install :P

Short of that (and assuming Netflix does support Flash), I think your only choice is to keep using Chrome—even if just to watch Netflix.
Or maybe Internet Explorer/Edge.

Em quarta-feira, 30 de setembro de 2015 01:43:10 UTC-3, Lewis D. escreveu:

Thanks again for your time Aluísio.  I have both Chromium Portable and Google Chrome Portable installed but I am hoping to uninstall Chrome and solely use Chromium soon - Netflix is the only thing holding me back!  I'd like to avoid installing Flash, if possible.

[Lewis]

Hi Aluísio, that's an excellent idea!  I wouldn't count that as an install :) How do I do that?

 

Thanks again for all your help so far

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[Lewis D.]

I tried copying some files across but it didn't work.  Perhaps I copied the wrong files.  Could you assist please?  I'm not a complete novice but this is new to me!  Thank you

On Wednesday, September 30, 2015 at 11:24:02 AM UTC+1, Lewis D. wrote:

Hi Aluísio, that's an excellent idea!  I wouldn't count that as an install :) How do I do that?

 

Thanks again for all your help so far

On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 6:03 AM, Aluísio Augusto Silva Gonçalves wrote:

Well, I was going to suggest copying Chrome's copy of Flash to Chromium Portable, so I don't know if that counts as an install :P

Short of that (and assuming Netflix does support Flash), I think your only choice is to keep using Chrome—even if just to watch Netflix.
Or maybe Internet Explorer/Edge.


Em quarta-feira, 30 de setembro de 2015 01:43:10 UTC-3, Lewis D. escreveu:

Thanks again for your time Aluísio.  I have both Chromium Portable and Google Chrome Portable installed but I am hoping to uninstall Chrome and solely use Chromium soon - Netflix is the only thing holding me back!  I'd like to avoid installing Flash, if possible.

On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 2:49 AM, Aluísio Augusto Silva Gonçalves wrote:

I'm afraid not.  The only way would be recompiling Chromium with proprietary codec support.
Though, maybe Netflix still supports Flash.  Do you have Flash enabled already, or if not, a Google Chrome or Chrome Portable install laying around?


Em segunda-feira, 28 de setembro de 2015 22:30:26 UTC-3, Lewis D. escreveu:

Thanks for your reply.  Any way of adding this through an extension etc?

On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 9:19 PM, Aluísio Augusto Silva Gonçalves wrote:

I believe this is caused by us not supporting H.264 due to its patent-encumbered status.

Em segunda-feira, 28 de setembro de 2015 17:52:31 UTC-3, Lewis D. escreveu:

I am receiving the obnoxious 'We're having trouble playing Netflix on your browser. Please make sure you are using an official version of Chrome' error message in Netflix.  I've tried switching my user agent to no avail.  Does anyone have any ideas?  This is the one issue that prevents me from solely using Chromium for all my browsing.

Thanks for your time,

Lewis

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[Aluísio Augusto Silva Gonçalves]

Sorry, didn't see your previous message.  You just have to copy the App\Chrome-bin\<someversion>\PepperFlash folder from Chrome Portable to Data\App\PepperFlash in Chromium Portable (you may need to create App).

I need to check if it's the same plugin for both 32- and 64-bit installs.

[Aluísio Augusto Silva Gonçalves]

Yeah, looks like you need one for each architecture.  Next release will allow you to have the plugin inside Data\App\PepperFlash\<bits> for truly portable use.
In any case, if you're running in 64-bits mode (check chrome://version/), you'll have to grab the plugin from the 64-bit Chrome Portable.

[Lewis]

Thanks so much for your help and for your excellent release of Chromium.

Lewis

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[Aluísio Augusto Silva Gonçalves]

Glad to help!  Hope you got it all working.

Em quinta-feira, 8 de outubro de 2015 06:02:33 UTC-3, Lewis D. escreveu:

Thanks so much for your help and for your excellent release of Chromium.

Lewis

[Lewis]

In the end it turned out that Netflix only supports HTML5 or Silverlight playback, but the Flash plugin meant I can now use Spotify and Tidal in Chromium :)

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[Aluísio Augusto Silva Gonçalves]

Oh.  Well, at least it served for something.

Em sexta-feira, 9 de outubro de 2015 15:30:59 UTC-3, Lewis D. escreveu:

In the end it turned out that Netflix only supports HTML5 or Silverlight playback, but the Flash plugin meant I can now use Spotify and Tidal in Chromium :)

[Lewis]

It's taken me one step closer to using solely Chromium! Thanks again

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