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Pipelight: A Way To Get Netflix On Linux

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Pipelight: A Way To Get Netflix On Linux
[url]http://fds-team.de/cms/articles/2013-08/pipelight-using-silverlight-in-linux-browsers.html[/url]
Today we want to present you our latest project Pipelight, which allows to run your favorite Silverlight application directly inside your Linux browser. The project combines the effort by Erich E. Hoover with a new browser plugin that embeds Silverlight directly in any Linux browser supporting the Netscape Plugin API. He worked on a set of Wine patches to get Playready DRM protected content working inside Wine and afterwards created an Ubuntu package called Netflix Desktop. This package allows one to use Silverlight inside a Windows version of Firefox, which works as a temporary solution but is not really user-friendly and moreover requires Wine to translate all API calls of the browser. To solve this problem we created Pipelight.

Pipelight consists out of two parts: A Linux library which is loaded into the browser and a Windows program started in Wine. The Windows program, called pluginloader.exe, simply simulates a browser and loads the Silverlight DLLs. When you open a page with a Silverlight application the library will send all commands from the browser through a pipe to the Windows process and act like a bridge between your browser and Silverlight. As a user you will not notice anything from that "magic" and you can simply use Silverlight the same way as on Windows.
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ericramos1990

Re: Pipelight: A Way To Get Netflix On Linux

Post by ericramos1990 »

You beat me to it, thanks for the post. =( the linux mint forums seem dead, I'm surprised I didn't see a single thank you
mbohets

Re: Pipelight: A Way To Get Netflix On Linux

Post by mbohets »

Thanks for your publication, it allowed me to view TV online from my cabletv provider Telenet on their site yelotv.be
jmdeking

Re: Pipelight: A Way To Get Netflix On Linux

Post by jmdeking »

i installed pipelight using the following tutorial found on: [url]http://www.webupd8.org/2013/08/pipelight-use-silverlight-in-your-linux.html[/url]

Closed all browsers

and ran the following code:

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sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ehoover/compholio
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:mqchael/pipelight
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install pipelight
But no success, it doesnt load any silverlight video's the screen is blank.

Anyone care to help? i run Linux Mint 13 Maya
Orbmiser

Re: Pipelight: A Way To Get Netflix On Linux

Post by Orbmiser »

I only see a blank rectangle and no video!
https://answers.launchpad.net/pipelight/+faq/2359

Just shooting in the dark here as don't use it myself.
Might take a look at my link at the top which is more through and more links.
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Darroch

Re: Pipelight: A Way To Get Netflix On Linux

Post by Darroch »

The latest edition of pipelight will also let Linux users run the Adobe Flashplayer for Windows in Firefox which allows you to run the latest Adobe Flashplayer on computers with CPUs which don't have the SSE2 instruction set (AthlonXP).

http://www.webupd8.org/2013/08/pipeligh ... linux.html
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