Netflix on OpenSuse

Hi,

My whole purpose for building this machine is to watch netflix with my none smart TV’s.
I have been searching the web and found this article on how to install Chrome on OpenSuse.
http://anl4u.com/blog/how-to-install-google-chrome-in-opensuse/

However the article is almost three years old. It doesn’t work.

I have just tried to download and install Chrome from google.com. However after the download
it flashes red, Unsupported. So what is a blok to do?

I have tried netflix with the Konqueror browser but I get the same problem with firefox. Not supported. The article above gives the work around. Now I need a work around for the work around to download and install Chrome.

Thanks!

On Fri, 20 Feb 2015 04:46:02 +0000, juggernautsei wrote:

> I have just tried to download and install Chrome from google.com.
> However after the download it flashes red, Unsupported. So what is a
> blok to do?

What version of openSUSE?

I’m using Chrome on openSUSE 13.2 (just downloaded from google.com), and
it works fine here. I use it to watch Netflix, in fact.

Jim


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On Fri, 20 Feb 2015 05:23:17 GMT
Jim Henderson <hendersj@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:

> On Fri, 20 Feb 2015 04:46:02 +0000, juggernautsei wrote:
>
> > I have just tried to download and install Chrome from google.com.
> > However after the download it flashes red, Unsupported. So what is a
> > blok to do?
>
> What version of openSUSE?
>
> I’m using Chrome on openSUSE 13.2 (just downloaded from google.com),
> and it works fine here. I use it to watch Netflix, in fact.
>

Chrome (or Chromium) is unnecessary. I’ve just signed up for a free
month of Netflix and started viewing a film via Firefox. The only other
thing that’s needed is Pipelight.
http://pipelight.net/cms/install/installation-opensuse.html


Graham Davis [Retired Fortran programmer - now a mere computer user]
openSUSE Tumbleweed (64-bit); KDE 4.14.4; Kernel: 3.18.3;
Processor: AMD Phenom II X2 550; Video: nVidia GeForce 210 (using
nouveau driver); Sound: ATI SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)

I am using
Linux 3.16.7-7-desktop

           openSUSE 13.2 (Harlequin) (x86_64)

I will try this and report back

Chrome (or Chromium) is unnecessary. I’ve just signed up for a free
month of Netflix and started viewing a film via Firefox. The only other
thing that’s needed is Pipelight.
http://pipelight.net/cms/install/ins…-opensuse.html

THANKS!!

Chrome (or Chromium) is unnecessary. I’ve just signed up for a free
month of Netflix and started viewing a film via Firefox. The only other
thing that’s needed is Pipelight.

I installed the Pipelight however, still can’t watch movies on netflix yet.

They seem not to say how to get it to work. I will reboot then try netflix again.

On Fri, 20 Feb 2015 12:36:01 GMT
juggernautsei <juggernautsei@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:

>
> > Chrome (or Chromium) is unnecessary. I’ve just signed up for a free
> > month of Netflix and started viewing a film via Firefox. The only
> > other thing that’s needed is Pipelight.
>
> I installed the Pipelight however, still can’t watch movies on netflix
> yet.
>
> They seem not to say how to get it to work. I will reboot then try
> netflix again.
>
>

Rebooting shouldn’t be necessary. On the machine and partition I’d tried
it on, I hadn’t installed Pipelight so I got the message on the Netflix
screen to install Silverlight. I then installed it using the five
commands that are required.

Once that was complete, Wine started up. I then found that the Netflix
screen had changed to contain a message to start Silverlight. I clicked
on that and everything started working.

I’m wondering, did you issue the command to enable Silverlight?


Graham Davis [Retired Fortran programmer - now a mere computer user]
openSUSE Tumbleweed (64-bit); KDE 4.14.4; Kernel: 3.18.3;
Processor: AMD Phenom II X2 550; Video: nVidia GeForce 210 (using
nouveau driver); Sound: ATI SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)

I’m wondering, did you issue the command to enable Silverlight?

Thanks for the details. I did not install Silverlight I enabled it.


libpipelight-silverlight5.1.soapplication/x-silverlight (npctrl: scr),
application/x-silverlight-2

libpipelight-flash.soapplication/x-shockwave-flash (Adobe Flash movie: swf),
application/futuresplash (FutureSplash movie: spl)

I followed the instructions on the second page Pipelight.

I enable silverlight and adobe.

I will try to install silverlight.

to install Silverlight. I then installed it using the five
commands that are required.

Can you post a link to the five commands?

you shouldn’t need pipelight anymore, I don’t have it and NetFlix is working fine for me in Chrome-beta. Can’t remember what I did but I believe you may just need mozilla-nss > 3.16. and a current version of Chrome

I don’t have a user switcher agent as mentioned below (though pretty sure I did at one time) and in playback settings I’m not seeing an HTML5 preference option

http://www.webupd8.org/2014/09/nss-updated-to-allow-native-html5.html
http://techreport.com/news/26897/new-chrome-beta-enables-html5-netflix-on-linux
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2014/08/netflix-linux-html5-support-plugins

To 2nd the above thought, you can now watch Netflix in OpenSuse (or any Linux) with Chrome. Since Chrome 37, Netflix works natively without any plugins (like pipelight).

Have you tried installing Chrome directly from google? It’s really straightforward and should work right out of the box…

On Sat, 21 Feb 2015 00:56:02 GMT
juggernautsei <juggernautsei@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:

>
> > to install Silverlight. I then installed it using the five
> > commands that are required.
> >
>
> Can you post a link to the five commands?
>
>

http://pipelight.net/cms/installation.html

In step 1, clicking on “openSUSE” takes you to the link I previously
provided http://pipelight.net/cms/install/installation-opensuse.html
which contains the first four commands. Which first command you choose
depends on which release you are running. So, for 13.2 you run:
zypper ar --refresh
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/DarkPlayer:/Pipelight/openSUSE_13.2/home:DarkPlayer:Pipelight.repo
Instead of that, you could, of course, add the repository via YaST.

Next, you run the three commands listed below “Afterwards install the
necessary packages (run as root user):”

Finally, click on the link “enable the plugins” below those, taking you
back to section 2 of the opening link and the fifth command, “sudo
pipelight-plugin --enable pluginname”, where, in this case,
“pluginname” is “silverlight”

Hope that clarifies things a bit.


Graham Davis [Retired Fortran programmer - now a mere computer user]
openSUSE Tumbleweed (64-bit); KDE 4.14.4; Kernel: 3.18.3;
Processor: AMD Phenom II X2 550; Video: nVidia GeForce 210 (using
nouveau driver); Sound: ATI SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)

I finally got Chrome install and it plays Netflix out of the box as discribed.
I was expecting once the download complete for it to auto install. Instead I received an error message stating that backend not supported. I had to go to the download folder of firefox and run the installer from there. It installed everything needed and now I can watch Sparticus!!!

That is a known problem with the installer. You can use the rpm command directly to install