Easiest way to watch Netflix in FreeBSD?

[Yuri]

It turns out that chrome (chromium with some closed DRM components) is
needed, but it isn't available in ports.
So is there any way, besides using the virtual machine?

Thanks,
Yuri
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[Polytropon]

On Fri, 29 Jan 2016 12:37:54 -0800, Yuri wrote:
> It turns out that chrome (chromium with some closed DRM components) is
> needed, but it isn't available in ports.
> So is there any way, besides using the virtual machine?

Not tested, but you could probably try to run the official Linux
version of Chrome (including the Digital Restriction Management
components required) with the Linux ABI ("Linuxulator"), so you
won't need a full VM...


--
Polytropon
Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...

[Santhosh Joseph]

On Fri, 2016-01-29 at 12:37 -0800, Yuri wrote:
> It turns out that chrome (chromium with some closed DRM components)
> is
> needed, but it isn't available in ports.
> So is there any way, besides using the virtual machine?
>

> Thanks,
> Yuri

pipelight + sliverlight works well for me with firefox. You can also
install the flash plugin if you want.

..pkg info pipelight..
Description :
Pipelight is a wrapper for using Windows plugins in FreeBSD browsers
and therefore giving you the possibility to access services which
are otherwise not available for FreeBSD users.

WWW: http://www.pipelight.net/


Cheers
SJ

[Bernt Hansson]

On 2016-01-29 21:37, Yuri wrote:
> It turns out that chrome (chromium with some closed DRM components) is
> needed, but it isn't available in ports.
> So is there any way, besides using the virtual machine?
>
> Thanks,
> Yuri

Yes. Don't use netflix.

[Victor Sudakov]

Bernt Hansson wrote:
> > It turns out that chrome (chromium with some closed DRM components) is
> > needed, but it isn't available in ports.
> > So is there any way, besides using the virtual machine?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Yuri
> Yes. Don't use netflix.

Netflix uses FreeBSD in its appliances, so not using Netflix is kind
of unfair :-)

https://openconnect.itp.netflix.com/software/

--
Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN
sip:sud...@sibptus.tomsk.ru

[Bernt Hansson]

On 2016-01-30 13:59, Victor Sudakov wrote:
> Bernt Hansson wrote:
>>> It turns out that chrome (chromium with some closed DRM components) is
>>> needed, but it isn't available in ports.
>>> So is there any way, besides using the virtual machine?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Yuri
>> Yes. Don't use netflix.
> Netflix uses FreeBSD in its appliances, so not using Netflix is kind
> of unfair :-)
>
> https://openconnect.itp.netflix.com/software/
>

Aha!Didn't know that. Well it's another ballgame then.

I cancel my previous comment.

[Shane Ambler]

On 30/01/2016 23:29, Victor Sudakov wrote:
> Bernt Hansson wrote:
>>> It turns out that chrome (chromium with some closed DRM components) is
>>> needed, but it isn't available in ports.
>>> So is there any way, besides using the virtual machine?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Yuri
>> Yes. Don't use netflix.
>
> Netflix uses FreeBSD in its appliances, so not using Netflix is kind
> of unfair :-)
>
> https://openconnect.itp.netflix.com/software/
>

That would be a good argument for Netflix tech support.

So you use FreeBSD to run your servers, when will you allow FreeBSD
users to access your service?


--
FreeBSD - the place to B...Software Developing

Shane Ambler

[Malcolm Matalka]

Shane Ambler <Fre...@ShaneWare.Biz> writes:

> On 30/01/2016 23:29, Victor Sudakov wrote:
>> Bernt Hansson wrote:
>>>> It turns out that chrome (chromium with some closed DRM components) is
>>>> needed, but it isn't available in ports.
>>>> So is there any way, besides using the virtual machine?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Yuri
>>> Yes. Don't use netflix.
>>
>> Netflix uses FreeBSD in its appliances, so not using Netflix is kind
>> of unfair :-)
>>
>> https://openconnect.itp.netflix.com/software/
>>
>
> That would be a good argument for Netflix tech support.
>
> So you use FreeBSD to run your servers, when will you allow FreeBSD
> users to access your service?

Does Pipelight work? It's in pkg.

[Paul Pathiakis via freebsd-questions]

You MAY have luck with the user agent switcher. Search in Firefox
addons and, once installed, download from:

http://techpatterns.com/forums/about304.html

There's a major set of extensions to make the browser identify itself as
any number of OS and browser identities. I don't have time to test and
find out what works. (What's really annoying is that they are detecting
for browsers at all. It's HTML5 which is supposed to be fully
independent.) Please let the list know if you find anything that works. :-)

P.

[kpn...@pobox.com]

On Mon, Feb 01, 2016 at 01:04:32PM +1030, Shane Ambler wrote:
> On 30/01/2016 23:29, Victor Sudakov wrote:
> > Bernt Hansson wrote:
> >>> It turns out that chrome (chromium with some closed DRM components) is
> >>> needed, but it isn't available in ports.
> >>> So is there any way, besides using the virtual machine?
> >>>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>> Yuri
> >> Yes. Don't use netflix.
> >
> > Netflix uses FreeBSD in its appliances, so not using Netflix is kind
> > of unfair :-)
> >
> > https://openconnect.itp.netflix.com/software/
> >
>
> That would be a good argument for Netflix tech support.
>
> So you use FreeBSD to run your servers, when will you allow FreeBSD
> users to access your service?

It's not really that good of an argument. The two kinds of use are totally
different. "I see you have an apple orchard. When are you going to start
growing oranges?" Or, as seen in subtitles from Japanese shows rented on
DVD from Netflix, "This is this and that is that."

My guess is (I don't work for Netflix and I never have) that Netflix checks
its logs and sees that there are not enough FreeBSD users visiting its web
site to make the expense worthwhile.

Will the 64-bit Linuxulator be good enough to run whatever is needed to
stream Netflix? If so, why should Netflix pay to support native FreeBSD
if FreeBSD customers already have a working solution? And if said Linuxulator
is not good enough then Netflix can count on someone else paying the
developers to make it good enough.

Netflix is a business. They use FreeBSD because it works well for them.
If they have a problem on their end they pay to fix it and possibly get
the changes pushed back up into the FreeBSD tree. Lots of companies do the
exact same thing. That's a _good_ thing.

So I wouldn't give their support staff a hard time about not having a
native FreeBSD client. It won't accomplish anything except create hard
feelings.

(I have been a Netflix customer for a decade, but when they started charging
for streaming I turned it off.)

--
Kevin P. Neal http://www.pobox.com/~kpn/

"Nonbelievers found it difficult to defend their position in \
the presense of a working computer." -- a DEC Jensen paper

[Matthew Seaman]

On 2016/02/01 13:31, kpn...@pobox.com wrote:
> Netflix is a business. They use FreeBSD because it works well for them.
> If they have a problem on their end they pay to fix it and possibly get
> the changes pushed back up into the FreeBSD tree. Lots of companies do the
> exact same thing. That's a _good_ thing.

Netflix employs a good number of FreeBSD developers directly and
acitively pushes improvements they make into the FreeBSD sources. They
have a now fairly famous 'zero delta' ideal -- ie. that they are using
FreeBSD without any local modifications.

Cheers,

Matthew