Netflix playback broken after ubuntu 13.10 upgrade

Hi Brad,

one issue we already encountered with Ubuntu 13.10, is that the Chromium user agent switchers do not work anymore (see [1], [2], [3]). They have changed the plugin interface, and its necessary to set the user agent via commandline, for example with:

chromium-browser --user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120427 Firefox/15.0a1"

You can check if the user agent switcher is working with the following page: http://fds-team.de/pipelight/

If this is not the problem in your case, we need some additional information:

* Which browser are you using?

* Can you provide a debug log? To do this, first close all your browser instances (required to get the debug output!), then type in a terminal (firefox is just an example, you can also use any other browser):

firefox &> ~/.pipelight.log

and upload pipelight.log from your home directory, so we can take a look at it (for example to http://pastebin.com )

Sebastian

[1] https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=289776
[2] http://askubuntu.com/questions/360954/all-chromium-extensions-throw-errors-since-update-to-13-10
[3] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/1232575

I also tried the package in pipelight-daily just in case, but still no go.

Hi Sebastien,

Sorry, didn't see your reply.

I started having this problem in Firefox. I tried Chromiumas well, setting the user agent on the command line, with the same results.

Here's the STDOUT from Chromium: http://anselm.bradmont.net/~brad/pipelight_chromium.txt
And the STDERR, in case that would be helpful: http://anselm.bradmont.net/~brad/pipelight_chromium_stderr.txt
And a screenshot, just in case what I described isn't clear. I get to this point, but the video will not play: http://anselm.bradmont.net/~brad/pipelight.png

Brad

Oops, I'm new to Lanuchpad, didn't mean to mark this as solved.

Hi,

thanks for the logs, unfortunately I cannot see immediately anything directly related to a well-known error.
Can you please continue testing with the daily version, as this one allows to change settings a bit easier. Check with

dpkg --list | grep pipelight

that you really have the daily version installed, and then start your browser with (all in one line):

PIPELIGHT_GPUACCELERATION=0 firefox

Does this change anything?

Sebastian

I'm definitely on the daily, the installed package version is 0.2.1~daily-201310231912~ubuntu13.10.1. It doesn't look like disabling acceleration made any difference. :/

So, it looks like my dist upgrade screwed up some other stuff on my system too, like my soundcard, which I have noticed is not working at all. I think I'm going to do a clean install on the weekend. Hopefully that'll fix it.

Hmm, I managed to fix my sound and now Netflix is working. Maybe that was blocking playback from starting?

Anyway, thanks for the help; sorry for the wild goose chase.