Hi Everyone,
I have a paid subscription of an online streaming service Hotstar.com in India. The problem is, they are using some Flash based DRM technique with their videos due to which they don't play on Fedora 24 Workstation. I only get a movie not loaded message in context menu of flash player.
I searched about this issue and found few things to try like using freshplayer to get PepperFlash or installing the HAL shim library. But none of these methods seems to work with Fedora 24. Can anybody hep me out with this? It is so frustrating to go back to Windows just to watch my favorite streams.
Thanks in advance.
On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 1:58 PM Sumit Bhardwaj sumitkbhardwaj@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Everyone,
I have a paid subscription of an online streaming service Hotstar.com in India. The problem is, they are using some Flash based DRM technique with their videos due to which they don't play on Fedora 24 Workstation. I only get a movie not loaded message in context menu of flash player.
I searched about this issue and found few things to try like using freshplayer to get PepperFlash or installing the HAL shim library. But none of these methods seems to work with Fedora 24. Can anybody hep me out with this? It is so frustrating to go back to Windows just to watch my favorite streams.
Thanks in advance.
I've struggled with this a lot when Amazon Prime still used Flash. I tried all the workarounds, jumping from one to the other, as each one broke with each update. I think the best option nowadays is to avoid such sites entirely. Most of the major video streaming services have switched to HTML5 video, instead of Flash. I'm not sure it's worth struggling to continue to run Flash on Fedora.
On 09/13/2016 10:57 AM, Sumit Bhardwaj wrote:
I searched about this issue and found few things to try like using freshplayer to get PepperFlash or installing the HAL shim library. But none of these methods seems to work with Fedora 24. Can anybody hep me out with this? It is so frustrating to go back to Windows just to watch my favorite streams.
Have you tried using Chrome? Also, Adobe just released a new version of Flash on Linux for testing at http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer.html, but I think I read that it doesn't include DRM.
Hi Christopher,
Yes, I understand and I use Netflix too which works properly. It's just that Hotstar has a lot of Indian movies and TV Series that Netflix doesn't, in fact no other service has. So I was kinda hoping if I can go with a workaround till the time they switch to HTML5.
Hi Samuel Sieb,
Yes, I tried Chrome as well. The problem is on Linux, DRM in flash is implemented using HAL libraries as per what I have read, and that lib is no longer used. So whether it's Chrome or Firefox, its not working, The new version of Flash plugin that Adobe has released is security fixes only. They will never introduce new features in future as well.
On 09/13/2016 02:36 PM, Sumit Bhardwaj wrote:
Yes, I tried Chrome as well. The problem is on Linux, DRM in flash is implemented using HAL libraries as per what I have read, and that lib is no longer used. So whether it's Chrome or Firefox, its not working, The new version of Flash plugin that Adobe has released is security fixes only. They will never introduce new features in future as well.
Did you actually follow the link I gave you? They have apparently changed their minds. The version there is a beta of 23, not the 11 that we've had for years.
Hi How is it installed? Did not find that link in there.
On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 5:23 PM, Samuel Sieb samuel@sieb.net wrote:
On 09/13/2016 02:36 PM, Sumit Bhardwaj wrote:
Yes, I tried Chrome as well. The problem is on Linux, DRM in flash is implemented using HAL libraries as per what I have read, and that lib is no longer used. So whether it's Chrome or Firefox, its not working, The new version of Flash plugin that Adobe has released is security fixes only. They will never introduce new features in future as well.
Did you actually follow the link I gave you? They have apparently
changed their minds. The version there is a beta of 23, not the 11 that we've had for years.
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On 09/30/2016 12:09 AM, Javier Perez wrote:
Hi How is it installed? Did not find that link in there.
http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer.html
Scroll down the page a bit to the section titled "Flash Player 23 Beta Installers". Then under Linux, there is link for 32-bit and 64-bit. The link gives you a libflashplayer.so file. Assuming you have previously installed the flash-plugin package from Adobe, you should replace the one in /usr/lib64/flash-plugin/ with the one you downloaded.
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