Netflix Desktop

Are there any plans to support Silverlight 5?

Asked by Michael Müller

Hello,

I was wondering if they are any plans to support Silverlight 5? One german streaming service called maxdome for example did an update on their site and they now require Silverlight 5 to watch movies. It is possible to play unecrypted videos, but when using DRM there seems to be some problems with version 5. The indivudalization/key files are created but the video doesn't play. With Silverlight 4 everything worked well.

By the way: I am currently working on a project to load windows NPAPI Plugins, like Silverlight, in linux browsers. This is done by creating a "fake" plugin for the linux browser which starts silverlight in wine (using a self created plugin loader) and all plugin commands are passed through pipes. Due to some bugs this currently works only with Silverlight 5, but when they are resolved it should also be possible to use version 4. It would be really cool if we could resolve the remaining issues, so that your efforts in conjunction with my project allows to watch movies using silverlight without the need to start an extra browser in wine.

Michael

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Erich E. Hoover (ehoover) said : 		#1

Hi Michael,

Unfortunately I don't plan on supporting Silverlight 5 at this time, I'm busy with work and trying to get the Silverlight 4 patches included in mainline Wine. Once I've figured out some things to get the Silverlight 4 patches included then I'll move on to Silverlight 5.

That's a very exciting project! I'd be happy to do anything that I can to assist you in integrating your project with the work that I've done, it'd definitely be nice for people to use Silverlight in their normal browsers.

Best,
Erich

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Joachim Carlsen (joachimcarlsen) said : 		#2

Hi

Michael, where can i try the browser-plugin and have a look at the code?
I'm interested in trying Silverlight5 for www.sumo.no, as the netflix-desktop is loadng into infinity :(

- Joachim

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Michael Müller (mqchael) said : 		#3

Hi Joachim,

the code is currently work in progress and contains a lot of debug output and functions stubs. Before I release it, I want to implement the whole NPAPI and test it with some other Plugins to find all bugs which still may exist, which should take just a couple of days. I can also announce Silverlight 4 support with DRM :-). The bug which prevented Silverlight 4 from running was not really related to my code, but version 4 forgot to call CoInitialize() and therefore failed to use the COM library.

I will post a link to the description and the code when it is released.

Michael

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Michael Müller (mqchael) said : 		#4

Hello,

my project (called Pipelight) which allows to use Silverlight in linux browsers is now almost complete and runs Silverlight 4 and 5 without any big issues. I wanted to ask if someone could do me a favor and try it out with some DRM based service like Netflix? The streaming service I would like to use requires Silverlight 5 and DRM is currently broken using Silverlight 5 and Wine. Simply send me a mail to <email address hidden> and I will send you the files and the compiling instructions (nothing complicated, you just need a cross compiler for win32 which can be installed using apt-get on debian/ubuntu based systems). You should also have Netflix Desktop or a manually patched Wine version with Silverlight installed. If your streaming service or application does not work with Netflix Desktop don't expect it to work with Pipelight.

I hope nobody minds that I ask here as it is not directly related to the project.

Michael

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Michael Müller (mqchael) said : 		#5

I think we can treat this problem as solved ;-)