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#1 2014-01-11 20:39:08
- herOldMan
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Extending netflix-desktop with flash
Hi,
I have a dedicated boot for watching streaming video. I have installed the netflix-desktop from AUR. In addition to Netflix, I'd like to watch directv also, which requires both a wine (firefox) browser and flash. I could go through the entire wine install and create a prefix with a Flash-enabled Windows Firefox browser (i've been through this excersise on another Arch machine). But, it would seem more minimal if I could somehow install Flash in the wine browser that netflix-desktop spawns.
Does anyone know how to extend the netflix-desktop's browser with Flash?
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#2 2014-01-11 20:43:08
- HalosGhost
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Re: Extending netflix-desktop with flash
Why not just use pipelight? It supports both silverlight and flash, and is significantly less resource-intensive than netflix-desktop. It also tends to work better.
All the best,
-HG
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#3 2014-01-11 21:05:15
- Trilby
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Re: Extending netflix-desktop with flash
I see HG beat me to it, but I'll second the recommendation for pipelight. I was very happy to use netflix-desktop for a bit when it came out, but it still always felt a bit hackish and awkward. Pipelight really is the netflix-for-linux I was waiting for - it lets me forget that netflix actually hates us. 
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#4 2014-01-12 03:39:04
- herOldMan
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Re: Extending netflix-desktop with flash
Nice!
Pipelight works well. I have Amazon Instant, Netflix, and Directv working.
The tennischannel.com live stream crashes Flash but it's probably a user-agent tweek or other randomly identifiable fix.
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#5 2014-01-12 03:57:55
- HalosGhost
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Re: Extending netflix-desktop with flash
Nice!
Pipelight works well. I have Amazon Instant, Netflix, and Directv working.
The tennischannel.com live stream crashes Flash but it's probably a user-agent tweek or other randomly identifiable fix.
I'm glad you got it worked out. Please remember to add [Solved] to the beginning of your thread title.
All the best,
-HG
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