Well, if the User agent string is changed, it tries to load the windows or mac version of the plug-in. which to date doesn't work. I've tried WINE with windows silverlight, but it doesn't work as of yet. Netflix doesn't actually support linux, I had a chat with one of their techs, who said that due to linux not supporting the HTML5 HD extensions, it shouldn't work. However with chrome and not changing the user agent string, it works natively. If I use the chrome browser with Lightbox, I can get to the video loading page but then it stalls/times out.
Yup Pipelight was what was working before they implemented the user agent string checking. It works but only provided the website allows linux based user agent strings.
angusj: Yup Pipelight was what was working before they implemented the user agent string checking. It works but only provided the website allows linux based user agent strings.
What reason is the site given for it failing? is there a message
have you tried switching to an older version of silverlight
What user strings have you tried
Did you do the extended attributes thingie when you installed pipelight
The advice given by pipelight for silverlight sites is to install a user agent switcher, which seems well wrong if a linux useragent is required to trigger pipelight to start. You may want to check their forum on that point as it seems a bit odd, there must be a way to make it trigger with a windows user agent
I did attempt and give up on getting silverlight working (not for this though) ages ago, so you got further than me
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