How I watch Netflix on Precise Puppy and Tahrpup

[heywoodj]

Well, the solution was simpler than expected -- use the "unusable" Silverlight 5! And to think that what I read on the Internet was wrong!

I removed the Firefox, in my case, by deleting the ~/.wine folder. If you have other Wine stuff going on you may not want to do that.

You don't need to redo Wine -- that's fine. So start by reinstalling Firefox from

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cd Downloads;wine Firefox\ Setup\ 18.0.2.exe

and follow the steps in the original post until the downloading the Silverlight.

Download the Silverlight 5 from:
http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/

Install and continue as before.

I'll revise the original post to reflect the changes.

edit: 2/2/15 Corrected punctuation error

[charbaby66]

I downloaded Chrome version 38.0.2125.111 and voila Netflix was on.No tinkering at all. It supports Netflix out of the box.
Download sfs here:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 964#805964
or direct from Google.com. I am on Xprecise it is Precise w/lxde.

I have been muddling with various chrome versions (37/38 dev & stable
ever since "they" said netflix via chrome would run in linux natively .
nope in precise, slacko or tahrpup 4.x

but i have just had success in quirky 6.2 (4G usb) and tahrpup 6.(frugal)
with chrome-unstable 40.0.2203..3.dev and running as root even!! needs lib-nss 3.17 (3 files incl. tools)

(EDIT: informed all chrome devs run as root thx ETP)

i did install the hated thing (shinobar's portable chrome pet didn't work)
I am trying to lock it down as much as possible, and only use it for NF.
haven't tested stable (EDIT no stable version 40 yet to test),
not smart enough to make sfs w/o a pet to do it for me have not tried

(EDIT: did try above quoted) chromium & confirmed DRM not supported.

Am testing in the other versions. I don't think lucid will be able to run, as
I think it is wrong kernel, but will report on precise and slacko in my rig.
I figure the mighty goog unlocked or unblocked something, as it was just
too easy, and I have been trying any & everything on the older chromes

(EDIT: no luck yet in tahrpup6 frugal w/ latest chrome 38 stable with/
without user agent change (did not need user agent fiddle in 40 above)


LOL if I do get it going, most anyone will be able to these lappys and
mind are getting old EDIT: fixed blatant typos

[heywoodj]

I now made a successful install on tahrpup 6.0 CE! Same steps as before, full install of tahrpup on ext4, but use:

wine-compholio - 1.7.XX~ubuntu14.04.1

package from https://launchpad.net/~pipelight/+archi ... /+packages rather than the 12.04.1 package. (XX=30 today, 11/05/2014.)

And my laptop runs a lot cooler than with Precise.

[trlkly]

There are no backroom deals with Google. It's just that Chrome supports DRM on HTML5 video, while Firefox currently does not, and Chromium can't, as the DRM module is closed source and binary locked.

And if you're using Netflix to watch videos, you can't be too concerned about DRM.

[heywoodj]

It seems that the pipelight page at launchpad.net no longer has built .deb files -- I found that out as I was reinstalling as I had borked my system from experimenting --- again!
I will now edit the original post to reflect the new situation, and hopefully a solution.

HJ

[heywoodj]

It took a while but I updated the original post with a different download location for the wine-compholio files. The versions are not the newest but at least they are already built and ready to go.