[opensuse] Watching netflix and/or amazon prime movies on 13.2
I'm trying to watch videos online from Amazon prime videos. The PC is running 13.2 (x64) and the video is connected to my LG TV via an HDMI port. Using the built in stuff of the TV I can watch the videos but I want to watch them through the PC instead of the TV directly. Fumbling around the TV menus with a remote is problematic for me. From what I read, this is possible. I've had no luck though. When I try to watch one, I get no error messages. It looks like it loads properly and is ready to play but nothing comes out on the TV. I realize I'm not giving much detail as to what I've tried. Really I'm just inquiring whether or not this is even possible. If anyone is actually able to do this I would really like to know. If so then I will be happy to get detailed on what I've done (wrong) in order get to some real help. From what I've read, if I can do this with Amazon, then Netflix should also work. I'm not a Netflix customer and won't be unless I can get this to work. Thanks for any pointers, links, etc... Mark -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 14/12/14 21:34, Mark Hounschell wrote:
I'm trying to watch videos online from Amazon prime videos. The PC is running 13.2 (x64) and the video is connected to my LG TV via an HDMI port. Using the built in stuff of the TV I can watch the videos but I want to watch them through the PC instead of the TV directly. Fumbling around the TV menus with a remote is problematic for me. From what I read, this is possible. I've had no luck though. When I try to watch one, I get no error messages. It looks like it loads properly and is ready to play but nothing comes out on the TV. I realize I'm not giving much detail as to what I've tried. Really I'm just inquiring whether or not this is even possible. If anyone is actually able to do this I would really like to know. If so then I will be happy to get detailed on what I've done (wrong) in order get to some real help.
From what I've read, if I can do this with Amazon, then Netflix should also work. I'm not a Netflix customer and won't be unless I can get this to work.
Thanks for any pointers, links, etc... Mark Try Pipelight
http://pipelight.net/cms/about.html Netflix works here on 13.2 and Linux Mint 17 Michael -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 14 Dec 2014, michaeltnorman@gmail.com wrote:
Try Pipelight
http://pipelight.net/cms/about.html
Netflix works here on 13.2 and Linux Mint 17
Or use Google Chrome which uses html5 video. I find it much smoother than pipelight. Netflix is the only thing that I use google Chrome for. Charles -- "We all know Linux is great...it does infinite loops in 5 seconds." (Linus Torvalds about the superiority of Linux on the Amsterdam Linux Symposium)
On 12/14/2014 05:43 PM, Charles Philip Chan wrote:
On 14 Dec 2014, michaeltnorman@gmail.com wrote:
Try Pipelight
http://pipelight.net/cms/about.html
Netflix works here on 13.2 and Linux Mint 17
Or use Google Chrome which uses html5 video. I find it much smoother than pipelight. Netflix is the only thing that I use google Chrome for.
Charles
I've got pipelight finally working. Amazon lets you configure for using either the Silverlight plugin or the Adobe flash-player plugin and it seems to work using either with pipelight. I haven't been able to get chromium to work at all though. I have the following installed and assume I have to configure the amazon side to use flash? #rpm -qa | grep -i chromium chromium-39.0.2171.65-4.4.x86_64 chromium-desktop-kde-39.0.2171.65-4.4.x86_64 chromium-ffmpeg-39.0.2171.95-693.1.x86_64 chromium-pepper-flash-16.0.0.235-2.1.x86_64 chromium-pdf-plugin-16.0.0.235-2.1.x86_64 It just goes through the loading process then nothing but a black screen. Is there something else I need to insure is loaded? Chromium is "Google Chrome" right? Thanks Mark ------------------------------------------------------ Powered by Xeams. Visit xeams.com for more information ------------------------------------------------------ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
Oh that is beautiful. I can finally use the VMWare VSphere web client from within Linux directly. One less thing that I need my Windoze VM for. Beautiful, wonderful, yay :D -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 12/18/2014 04:57 PM, Christopher Myers wrote:
Oh that is beautiful. I can finally use the VMWare VSphere web client from within Linux directly. One less thing that I need my Windoze VM for. Beautiful, wonderful, yay :D
Huh??? mark -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On Thu, 2014-12-18 at 16:10 -0500, Mark Hounschell wrote:
On 12/14/2014 05:43 PM, Charles Philip Chan wrote:
On 14 Dec 2014, michaeltnorman@gmail.com wrote:
Try Pipelight
Anything wrong with pipelight from the OBS? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 20/12/14 13:50, Hans Witvliet wrote:
On Thu, 2014-12-18 at 16:10 -0500, Mark Hounschell wrote:
On 12/14/2014 05:43 PM, Charles Philip Chan wrote:
On 14 Dec 2014, michaeltnorman@gmail.com wrote:
Try Pipelight
Anything wrong with pipelight from the OBS?
Hans No idea, I didn't know it was in the OBS. I just followed the instructions for openSUSE from the site I quoted. Works here on 12.3 13.2 and Linux Mint 17 on two boxes. Michael -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 12/20/2014 02:05 PM, michael norman wrote:
On 20/12/14 13:50, Hans Witvliet wrote:
On Thu, 2014-12-18 at 16:10 -0500, Mark Hounschell wrote:
On 12/14/2014 05:43 PM, Charles Philip Chan wrote:
On 14 Dec 2014, michaeltnorman@gmail.com wrote:
Try Pipelight
Anything wrong with pipelight from the OBS?
Hans
No idea, I didn't know it was in the OBS.
I just followed the instructions for openSUSE from the site I quoted.
Works here on 12.3 13.2 and Linux Mint 17 on two boxes.
What I've found, at least for Amazon prime and Netflix movies, is that Pipelight does in fact work. I also had to install the "user agent switcher" though. Pipelight allows you to use either the Silverlight (5.x) or Flash (16.0) plugins for windows. Amazon lets you configure your account to use the one you want. Using Silverlight on either Amazon or Netflix, I could never get better resolutions than 480p. With Flash on Amazon, I get 720p consistently. I've now watched several movies with Flash but NONE were without a few annoying stutters and or complete stops for a time. Using the smarts of the TV alone, I get 1080p and not a single stutter in any movie from Amazon or Netflix. Netflix seems to require Silverlight in your PC but since 480p is the best I can get with it, it's useless. Not sure why I can't get 1080p on the PC using Flash? It really sucks that Flash for Linux is no longer being updated. I suspect if it was there would be no stuttering in Amazon prime. Amazon, recognizes Linux Flash as being out of date and won't let you play without upgrading to 16.0 (Windows). I still cannot get Chromium to work at all, using its pepper-flash package. It would seem it would be useless for Netflix anyway because Netflix wants Silverlight? So all in all, at least for me, it's _almost_ a waste of time trying to watch Amazon or Netflix on Linux. Mark -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
I still cannot get Chromium to work at all, using its pepper-flash package. It would seem it would be useless for Netflix anyway because Netflix wants Silverlight?
So all in all, at least for me, it's _almost_ a waste of time trying to watch Amazon or Netflix on Linux.
Mark
You need Google Chrome the proprietary version not Chromium. Netflix works out of the box (watching it now) I think earlier in this thread somebody said that it uses HTML4 so you don't need pipelight as you do in Firefox. Netflix on Linux works when you install pipelight and enable the Silverlight plugin and the agent switcher extension set that to FF for Windows, all of which is in the Pipelight instructions, No experience here with Amazon but using Google Chrome works here fullscreen on my tv. I downloaded and installed Chrome from here https://www.google.com/chrome/browser/desktop/ Hope this helps Michael -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
participants (6)
-
Charles Philip Chan -
Christopher Myers -
Hans Witvliet -
Mark Hounschell -
Mark Hounschell -
michael norman