Pipelight won't work even after reinstall on 14.04

I assume you're trying to use Google Chrome or Chromium, is this right?

On chromium, yes

Oh but I forgot to mention, I tried firefox and it still won't work. Both browsers send me to the page that says what is the required system specifications to use netflix. I then tried a user agent switcher, that got me as far as loading the video player, then getting a message to install pipelight. The Team FSD pipelight checker also says that pipelight isn't installed properly, but no errors arose during installation of pipelight.

Hi,

please take a look at the linked bug reports, especially:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1321505

The problem you experience is no bug in Pipelight, it is caused by the fact that Chrome/Chromium has removed NPAPI support - this is the plugin interface used by almost all plugins (including Pipelight and Silverlight).

Basically this means, that Chrome/Chromium will only work with Chromes own plugins (like PepperFlash), but with none of the "older" plugins, like the regular Linux Flash Plugin, Moonlight, ... The Chrome developers are planning to do the same step on Windows till the end of the year, which makes Chrome basically completely unuseable for video-on-demand streaming which still require the Silverlight plugin.

As a workaround you can either:
a) Downgrade to an older version of Chromium or Google-Chrome. For links to old versions of Google-Chrome you can also take a look at the bug report above.
b) Use a different browser, for example Firefox or Iceweasel
c) Compile a patched version of Chromium with NPAPI support added again - since this can be very complicated, especially for unexperienced users, we will most likely start offering a separate PPA soon.

Regards,
Sebastian

Concerning the problems with firefox: Did you make sure that Silverlight is enabled? This was still enabled by default in "pipelight", but "pipelight-multi" doesn't do this automatically anymore, since we also support a lot other plugins (Flash/Unity3D/...).

To enable Silverlight just run:

sudo pipelight-plugin --enable silverlight

To set your user agent please take a look at the following FAQ:

https://answers.launchpad.net/pipelight/+faq/2351

So for anyone else who had my same problems (pipelight not working on chromium on amd cpu (apu in my case) computer) this is what fixed it (And major thanks to Slackner and DarkPlayer on the pipelight irc for helping me get here!)

First I uninstalled all pipelight versions that I had. I then re-installed following the official instructions, and then I enabled silverlight. If you're using firefox, grab the user agent switcher here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/user-agent-overrider/

then go into its preferences and add these two lines at the end:
Firefox 15/Windows: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120427 Firefox/15.0a1
Safari/OSX: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_7_3) AppleWebKit/534.55.3 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.1.3 Safari/534.53.10

If you want to use chrome, you'll have to download, follow this link and scroll to bottom (64 bit only im afraid):
https://bugs.launchpad.net/pipelight/+bug/1321505

Then you should be able to watch silverlight applications.

If the HD button won't show for netflix, it's because gpu acceleration is off. Close your browsers, then run this in your command line (ubuntu):
wget -O ~/.config/pipelight-silverlight5.1 https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/61413222/pipelight-silverlight5.1

This runs pipelight with gpu acceleration every time. (Give your thanks to DarkPlayer!)

Now you should be able to watch silverlight stuff and have the HD button in netflix.

Again, many thanks to Slackner and DarkPlayer for helping out! Best devs ever!