[SGVLUG] Pipelight: using Silverlight in Linux browsers (Netflix?)

[Doug Vargas]

i'll check that out. for what it's worth, netflix-desktop works fine for 
me if all else fails

On 08/20/2013 02:42 PM, Dan Kegel wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 2:24 PM, James McDuffie <mcduffie at pitfall.org> wrote:
>> Here is a new way you can (probably) use Netflix under Linux:
>> http://fds-team.de/cms/articles/2013-08/pipelight-using-silverlight-in-linux-browsers.html
>>
>> Using this with a UserAgent switcher (so they think you are a Winblows
>> user) should get you going using Netflix inside a Linux browser, without
>> having to load the Windows version of Firefox like the NetflixDesktop
>> PPA does. Although, I haven't tested this myself yet.
> Yeah, it's a nice approach.  I think Codeweavers had something like this
> long ago (though probably for some other Microsoft plugin, not silverlight).
>
> The guy who wrote the Wine patches needed to run Silverlight continues
> to slowly plug away at getting them upstream.  It's challenging to get patches
> into that project.
> - Dan
>