Suspicious Dish posted:

This is a Correct Opinion FYI

scroogle nmaps posted:

he said, in yospos

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PIPELIGHT: USE SILVERLIGHT IN YOUR LINUX BROWSER TO WATCH NETFLIX, MAXDOME VIDEOS AND MORE
Written by Andrew | Date: Thursday, August 22, 2013



Pipelight is project that brings Silverlight to any Linux browser that supports the Netscape Plugin API. Using it, you can use services that require Silverlight, such as Netflix, in native Linux web browsers like Firefox, Chrome or Midori.

Netflix Google Chrome Linux

Pipelight combines the effort by Erich E. Hoover (the Netflix Desktop developer) with a new browser plugin which - unlike Netflix Desktop which requires a Windows version of Firefox to run under Wine -, lets you access services that require Microsoft Silverlight using native Linux web browsers.

This solution isn't Wine-free because the browser plugin continues to use Wine however, this shouldn't have a big impact on performance:

"Pipelight consists out of two parts: A Linux library which is loaded into the browser and a Windows program started in Wine. The Windows program, called pluginloader.exe, simply simulates a browser and loads the Silverlight DLLs. When you open a page with a Silverlight application the library will send all commands from the browser through a pipe to the Windows process and act like a bridge between your browser and Silverlight. The used pipes do not have any big impact on the speed of the rendered video since all the video and audio data is not send through the pipe. Only the initialization parameters and (sometimes) the network traffic is send through them."

According to the Pipelight website, the plugin has been confirmed to work "almost perfectly" using Microsoft Silverlight 5 for the following websites: Maxdome, Netflix and Sumo 2.

I've tested Pipelight with Netflix, under Chrome (Ubuntu 13.10) and I can confirm it works (and the playback was smooth!), as you can see in the screenshots in this article. Update: I've also tested it with Firefox and it works, but sometimes the browser freezes, something which doesn't happen with Chrome so I recommend using Chrome / Chromium with Pipelight.


Install Pipelight in Ubuntu


Microsoft Silverlight Google Chrome Linux

Before proceeding, it's strongly recommended to close your web browser. Without doing this, the plugin may fail to install or crash the browser (you can copy the instructions below to a text editor).

1. If you've installed the old Pipelight version, remove it before proceeding:
sudo apt-get remove pipelight

To add the Pipelight stable and Compholio PPAs and install Pipelight in Ubuntu, use the following commands:
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:pipelight/stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install pipelight-multi

Then, you can install the Silverlight plugin using the following command:
- system-wide:
sudo pipelight-plugin --enable silverlight
- for your user only:
pipelight-plugin --enable silverlight

By default, this will install Silverlight 5.1, but you can install a different version, for instane 5.0, by using this command instead (don't use "sudo" if you don't want to install it system-wide):
sudo pipelight-plugin --disable silverlight --enable silverlight5.0

Once installed, start your browser and try THIS test Silverlight applet. If it doesn't work, check if Silverlight is available in your browser plugin list (e.g.: you can type "about :plugins" in the address bar).

IPvSH6T posted:

works for me natively in chrome with the changed ua.

edit: dev chrome iirc

pseudorandom name posted:

it works in normal chrome with no extensions or UA hackery or any effort whatsoever

Mr Dog posted:

symthe i think u need to work on meeting your typo quota, you're in danger of people thinking you're not enough of a tryhard.

Suspicious Dish posted:

What one thing does Linux do, and what does it do well?

Notorious b.s.d. posted:

creates jobs for bearded sadists

keyvin posted:

Look at thos fuking UPS pilot clowns. Pilot? more like Long haul truckers of the sky.

last place I worked was a consultancy with profit sharing that enabled me to earn an ungodly amount of money. We took turns cleaning the office restroom and one guy had the messiest shits. Who cares if you are scrubbing the poo poo off a toilet or the poo poo bits off a server as long as you make enough to let you do what you want outside of work.

eschaton posted:

I'm the key nobody has on their keyboards

don't get me wrong, I love me a lisp machine, but "super"?

MALE SHOEGAZE posted:

Shinku ABOOKEN posted:

Dead Of The Aids

Notorious b.s.d. posted:

abnegated

Sniep posted:

i was under the impression it was supposed to be said "guh-nome" which is on my "wont do" list

keyvin posted:

It was also the only game anyone had ever heard of on Linux until battle of wesnoth took off.

Silver Alicorn posted:

also I got dota 2 to work alright by turning all the graphics settings down, apparently it has really bad memory management on linux

pram posted:

osx nas a native client for those things