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The old Netflix viewer was Windows only but they've recently switched to Silverlight. This standard is Mac compatible and I have successfully run the Silverlight Netflix viewer natively on my Mac. Unfortunately my understanding is that the Linux version (Moonlight) is less mature.
Has anyone managed to run Firefox+Silverlight Combination inside CX? Successfully streaming netflix?
NO, it needs windows media player 11 DRM pieces I think... DRM is build in to MAC as well and it works there... Linux no can do I guess...
My understanding is that crossover runs almost different windows configured systems virtually. I was curious if anyone has tried installing 3 unsupported applications (firefox, wmp11, and silverlight) all on one bottle? Also, if you are willing to put up with some obnoxious errors and work with the urls of netflix, I have gotten to the point of installing IE7 and silverlight on the same bottle and got the movie to attempt to play (got the blue dots in a circle) but it froze. I will be attempting more things, but there are some ideas for people of what possibly might work. I will also be attempting IE8 when I become less irritated again. Best of luck!
I have tried FF, Silverlight, and WMP11 and it still doesn't work. (WMP11 won't install properly.) I can get as far as the spinning blue logo, then the Silverlight plugin crashes. I even tried copying over some DLLs that my Windows installation seemed to be using. Perhaps if we find the DLLs that the DRM is using...?
It appears that the file in charge of DRM on a Windows installation is probably:
C:\Windows\system32\wdmaud.drv
Copying this file to the proper location on a crossover bottle does nothing.
I used Microsoft Process Explorer (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653) to figure this out. Can anyone else confirm this?
...I can confirm you're wasting your time with this =) That
particular dll is just an audio device mapper, and has aught
to do with the DRM component. If it's crashing there, then it'd
be more than likely that it never received a stream (because)
the DRM failed. Afaik, the DRM for this is undertaken in a 'real'
windows kernel (real low level stuff), and like other systems
of this type (hackshield, gameguard, big list...including the
DRM machanisms in wmp) don't work due to that sort of situation...
..you will find the 'magic' dll required, is a real windows kernel...
Cheers!
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