I have been having issues getting my Dish Network account to “authenticate” on the Hulu.com website so that I am able to watch shows. I am a newbie to openSUSE and have had this problem ever since moving into Suse from Windows.
Hulu.com requires that people “authenticate” using a PAID provider (such as Dish Network, in my case) to watch certain shows on their website; More than likely because of licensing issues with the networks.
The authentication I believe uses Flash to complete the authentication.
I have used both Firefox and Chromium on Suse with no luck authenticating. I can however use Windows 7 but ONLY Firefox seems to authenticate.
Like any other problem,
You need to be specific and exact about any errors…
ie.
When you tried to authenticate but failed, what was the behavior and if an error displayed, what was it?
There is a pretty good chance that a detailed error might also be found in your syslog.
Wine (originally an acronym for “Wine Is Not an Emulator”) is a compatibility layer capable of running Windows applications on several POSIX-compliant operating systems, such as Linux, Mac OSX, & BSD. Instead of simulating internal Windows logic like a virtual machine or emulator, Wine translates Windows API calls into POSIX calls on-the-fly, eliminating the performance and memory penalties of other methods and allowing you to cleanly integrate Windows applications into your desktop.
Anyway, it comes with a ‘basic’ internet explorer application. You really need to learn about using wine first, as you would also need to cope with installing flash. (My thoughts were that a ‘Windows-like’ environment, and IE might be enough to get authenticated.)
Any idea of how to determine what is (or isnt) happening when it doesn’t authenticate? Is there some error log with Flash or in the browser? I have Chromium and Firefox installed…