Can anyone give me a quick update, what the current state of Netflix on Linux (especially on opensuse Tumbleweed) is?
I already did some searching on google and found old threads mentioning stuff like: pipelight
but as i found out pipelight is not only discontinued, at it seems that even chrome would not be an option anymore because they abandoned another important feature or am i wrong here?
Basically i just want to know if it is still possible to use Netflix on opensuse and if yes how i can achieve that.
Does Chromium also work or does it have to be Chrome?
If not is there a Chrome repository for opensuse tumbleweed?
edit: Chromium kind of works, at least i did not directly get redirected to a info page telling me about recommended browsers and operating systems when i start a video, but instead i get an error telling me that i have to check chrome://components for a component called: WidevineCdm but it is not listed.
So i think i need the real chrome instead
you need to do a vendor change with packman for multimedia to work, that should pull the widevinecdm plugin if not install it manually
zypper in chromium-plugin-widevinecdm
Firefox for windows includes a widevinecdm plugin so installing it under wine is another way to get Netflix
Mozilla are planning on porting the widevinecdm plugin on Firefox for Linux but when will that be … nobody knows
according to this https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-drm
Firefox supports google’s widevinecdm plugin (you’d still need a full vendor change to packman)
Well, I am sure I_A will not disagree with me, that this would be only a last resort if there were no better (=native) alternatives.
I am not sure if it will work, but it might be possible to use the widevinecdm-plugin in Firefox in combination with the “freshplayerplugin” (also from Packman).
From “zypper info freshplayerplugin”:
The main goal of this project is to get PPAPI (Pepper) Flash player
working in Firefox.
That was (and still is?) the main usage, but the following description looks promising:
This wrapper implements some kind of adapter
which will look like browser to PPAPI plugin and look like NPAPI
plugin for browser.
On Sat, 07 Jan 2017 19:46:01 +0000, sabo007 wrote:
> Can anyone give me a quick update, what the current state of Netflix on
> Linux (especially on opensuse Tumbleweed) is?
> I already did some searching on google and found old threads mentioning
> stuff like: pipelight but as i found out pipelight is not only
> discontinued, at it seems that even chrome would not be an option
> anymore because they abandoned another important feature or am i wrong
> here?
>
> Basically i just want to know if it is still possible to use Netflix on
> opensuse and if yes how i can achieve that.
> caprus;2807601 Wrote:
>> Been using Netflix on openSUSE for a long time now. Install Chrome
>> browser and go to netflix.com, login and start using Netflix. Done
>
> Tip: Once you’re logged in to Netflix on Chrome use the f11 key to go
> full screen.
Or in the Netflix playback, just click the ‘full screen’ icon in the
lower right corner.
On 01/09/2017 12:18 AM, Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Sun, 08 Jan 2017 22:46:01 +0000, caprus wrote:
>
>> caprus;2807601 Wrote:
>>> Been using Netflix on openSUSE for a long time now. Install Chrome
>>> browser and go to netflix.com, login and start using Netflix. Done
>>
>> Tip: Once you’re logged in to Netflix on Chrome use the f11 key to go
>> full screen.
>
> Or in the Netflix playback, just click the ‘full screen’ icon in the
> lower right corner.
>
> Jim
Uh… it’s chrome, setup an icon, make it app like:
/usr/bin/google-chrome --app=https://www.netflix.com
On Tue, 10 Jan 2017 03:23:28 +0000, Chris Cox wrote:
> On 01/09/2017 12:18 AM, Jim Henderson wrote:
>> On Sun, 08 Jan 2017 22:46:01 +0000, caprus wrote:
>>
>>> caprus;2807601 Wrote:
>>>> Been using Netflix on openSUSE for a long time now. Install Chrome
>>>> browser and go to netflix.com, login and start using Netflix. Done
>>>
>>> Tip: Once you’re logged in to Netflix on Chrome use the f11 key to go
>>> full screen.
>>
>> Or in the Netflix playback, just click the ‘full screen’ icon in the
>> lower right corner.
>>
>> Jim
>
> Uh… it’s chrome, setup an icon, make it app like:
> /usr/bin/google-chrome --app=https://www.netflix.com
