04-28-2014, 04:51 AM
Hello!
As for myself, I have no account with Netflix, and have never used their service. It is my hope that someone else will step in here who has actually made this work in Linux Lite. Nonetheless, I will try to do what I can.
I found this out there on the Web that suggests adding these programs in addition to netflix-desktop. These might help:
(I found this here: http://namhuy.net/1867/how-to-install-ne...edora.html)
From what I understand, Netflix uses Microsoft Silverlight with DRM (digital rights management), which is essentially the M$ version of Adobe's Flash Player. While implementing Silverlight is fairly easy, the DREM aspect makes it all much more difficult. (Now that I know this, I now understand why it's so difficult - if not impossible - to record Netflix videos.)
Additionally, from what I've read, netflix-desktop installs WINE - which allows certain Windows programs to run inside Linux - plus a Windows version of Firefox and the Silverlight plugin. I don't know what the specs on your computer are, but running that much additional software could be a problem for less capable machines.
Microsoft does not offer Silverlight for Linux, but there is a Silverlight alternative called Pipelight which has also been used to implement Netflix in Linux. More information on it, and its implementation, can be found here:
http://www.webupd8.org/2013/08/pipelight...linux.html
Without Netflix access, this is about all I can do for you at this time. As HTML5 becomes more popular, and Netflix and other streaming video sites implement it, perhaps all this will become easier in the future...
73 DE N4RPS
Rob
As for myself, I have no account with Netflix, and have never used their service. It is my hope that someone else will step in here who has actually made this work in Linux Lite. Nonetheless, I will try to do what I can.
I found this out there on the Web that suggests adding these programs in addition to netflix-desktop. These might help:
Code:
sudo apt-get install javascript-common python-pyxattr-dbg libcapi20-3 libosmesa6 libtiff4 unixodbc(I found this here: http://namhuy.net/1867/how-to-install-ne...edora.html)
From what I understand, Netflix uses Microsoft Silverlight with DRM (digital rights management), which is essentially the M$ version of Adobe's Flash Player. While implementing Silverlight is fairly easy, the DREM aspect makes it all much more difficult. (Now that I know this, I now understand why it's so difficult - if not impossible - to record Netflix videos.)
Additionally, from what I've read, netflix-desktop installs WINE - which allows certain Windows programs to run inside Linux - plus a Windows version of Firefox and the Silverlight plugin. I don't know what the specs on your computer are, but running that much additional software could be a problem for less capable machines.
Microsoft does not offer Silverlight for Linux, but there is a Silverlight alternative called Pipelight which has also been used to implement Netflix in Linux. More information on it, and its implementation, can be found here:
http://www.webupd8.org/2013/08/pipelight...linux.html
Without Netflix access, this is about all I can do for you at this time. As HTML5 becomes more popular, and Netflix and other streaming video sites implement it, perhaps all this will become easier in the future...
73 DE N4RPS
Rob
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