[Solved] Hal & Systemd

phunni · 2012-11-27 19:47:32

Looking at the list of service name equivalents I notice that Hal is listed as deprecated. This makes sense, since hal isn't really used in Arch anymore.

Except that it is required to watch certain content via flash which is protected by DRM - such as Google Movies (youtube) & 4od (UK Channel 4). I watch this content reasonably often so I either need an alternative to hal for getting this content working, or I need a way to start hal despite having moved to systemd...

Any ideas?

Last edited by phunni (2012-11-27 19:59:58)

phunni · 2012-11-27 19:59:44

Nevermind - figured it out. Just using hal.service seems to work. Hope this helps someone else.

fabertawe · 2013-12-15 15:36:43

@phunni - is this still working for you on 4od? If so, any further advice?

I've installed hal and hal-info fron the AUR and have enabled hal.service. I'm using Firefox and have tried disabling NoScript, Adblock and HTTPS Everywhere and it still just sits there with the spinning timer/loader. I can watch clips but not episodes.

Anyone else have 4od working?

phunni · 2013-12-15 15:53:10

This does still work for me and I watch 4OD regularly. However, I have found that the browser used can be a factor. For example, in Chrome I have the spinning loader - and it never gets beyond that. In Chromium, however, everything works well. Including adblock

fabertawe · 2013-12-15 16:30:13

Thanks for replying I'll try and experiment a bit more and then probably uninstall all the AUR stuff whilst I curse

fabertawe · 2013-12-16 19:16:55

Well I've tried Chromium and it's exactly the same as Firefox! I'm out of ideas, thanks anyway.

zebulon · 2014-01-05 11:07:36

4oD is working for me on Firefox, after I installed hal. I had to enable and start hal.service with systemctl.

# systemctl enable hal.service
# sudo systemctl start hal

Without it, videos do not work. They are still choppy though, it was better when 4oD replicated their videos on YouTube.

Last edited by zebulon (2014-01-05 12:36:12)

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[Solved] Hal & Systemd

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