open wine-tricks and install adobe air, all codec related installs, NET.4.0, firefox 11
install silver light from the firefox browser in wine
make sure to set the audio settings in wine settings to match your systems sound card
Create a app icon for netflix in KDE
right click + edit applications
select new item
enter s(h /usr/bin/Netflix.sh )in the command block
check enable launch feed back and place in system tray
advanced tab work path (sh /usr/bin/Netflix.sh)
go back to general select the gray square to create icon
check other icons and browse
download a.png image of choice and save to my pictures
go back to kde menu editor which should still be open and select the image
here is the link to the icon image I used just right click save as ICS Plates HD - netflix Icon | Icon Database
From what you’ve posted, IMO there should be a reasonable chance for someone to create a version running in Mono, possibly running in Moonlight. Would theoretically improve performance by running natively without WINE emulation.
The catch might be Moonlight since it was always somewhat problematic despite promises.
But, I wonder if Netflix will ever re-build there app since MS deprecated Silverlight years ago, at some point the technology will die a final death.
> Although I’m not a Netflix user,
>
> From what you’ve posted, IMO there should be a reasonable chance for
> someone to create a version running in Mono, possibly running in
> Moonlight. Would theoretically improve performance by running natively
> without WINE emulation.
No chance, because of the DRM requirements Netflix has.
> The catch might be Moonlight since it was always somewhat problematic
> despite promises.
>
> But, I wonder if Netflix will ever re-build there app since MS
> deprecated Silverlight years ago, at some point the technology will die
> a final death.
They’ve recently announced support for HTML5, though the DRM requirement
still is in place.
Yes, it looks like this Netflix HTML5 player is breaking news, within the past 6 days or so as I am posting.
Based on a quick cursory search,
Officially, this Netflix Player is supported running only on IE 11 on Win8.1 (blue) (aka unofficial service pack). Is based on a <proposed> W3C set of “Premium Multimedia Extensions” which is composed of 3 DRM related technologies largely developed by Microsoft (would make sense if Netflix is using Silverlight and Windows DRM).
But, <unofficially> I found that Chrome “Canary” (which is indeed installable on openSUSE and other Linux) is supposed to include these same extensions. Remains to be seen whether you can run the Netflix Player on Linux . People who do bleeding edge web coding and browser development know that Canary is Chrome’s Alpha project/release. If anyone believes that Chromium (often aka “Chrome Beta” or the Open Source testing ground for mainstream Chrome) is an adventure, the adventures aren’t anything like what you’ll find in Canary both good and bad. But…
– Chromebook supposedly officially supports the Premium Multimedia Extensions (!). If that’s not a mis-print, it’s surprising but noteworthy if Google feels the implementation is stable enough to deploy mainstream…
By all accounts, the new HTML5 Netflix player should be vastly preferred over running the Silverlight version… A major leap in resource usage efficiency, enabling direct access to GPU capabillities (which suspiciously sounds like it might require more than just new browser functionality, may also require new OS functionality as well which would mean Linux isn’t supported… but only today).
Decided to take a few moments to update what is available for Linux.
Sadly, yes it appears that no <official> Canary <Builds> are available for Linux today.
Of course, no one will be willing to call your custom build “Canary” and a daily build is even more risky than an Alpha Build, but if that’s what you’re willing to experience…
Have not tried the link, and does not fit into my current needs… but if anyone is interested…
> By all accounts, the new HTML5 Netflix player should be vastly preferred
> over running the Silverlight version… A major leap in resource usage
> efficiency, enabling direct access to GPU capabillities (which
> suspiciously sounds like it might require more than just new browser
> functionality, may also require new OS functionality as well which would
> mean Linux isn’t supported… but only today).
Well, it might just mean it needs hardware acceleration support via the
proprietary drivers.