Pipelight wont work for me (Ubuntu 14.04/GNOME/Chromium)

[Nigh]

So on my new htpc running ubuntu 14.04, I installed pipelight following the instructions here: http://fds-team.de/cms/pipelight-installation.html

Then I did the sudo pipelight-plugin --enable silverlight part, but netflix, amazon prime, and every other silverlight using service still wouldn't work. I used the FDS-Team silverlight test page, and it said that silverlight wasn't working properly, even though when I did the --enable bit it said that it was enabled. Can anyone help me?

System specs: here: http://pcpartpicker.com/user/ROODAY/saved/3gFy

 

[w3techie]

Are you sure these instructions apply to Chromium?

It looks like they are for Chrome.

Chromium is the open source version of Chrome.

But it looks like these instructions are for Chrome.

You can install Chrome as per these instructions:

http://www.howopensource.com/2011/10/install-google-chrome-in-ubuntu-11-10-11-04-10-10-10-04/

You may have to run apt-get update or reinstall/re-enable pipelight, but I am sure you will have much better luck with that! 😉

 

[Nigh]

They do work for chromium, it and chrome are essentially the same thing. After talking to the pipelight devs, they told me it was because of the latest chromkum/chrome update that removed NPAPI support, so plugins like pipelight (and even silverlight) wouldn't work anymore. I got the thing working on firefox, and then I downloaded an older version of chrome since I like chrome better. Here's the bug report thread I had with them, solutions are at the bottom:

https://answers.launchpad.net/pipelight/+question/249242

 

[w3techie]

JFIY. Silverlight is no longer going to be supported by Microsoft because of HTML5. The ability embed videos and graphics and even interactive elements in HTML5 makes Silverlight obsolete. So, the Mono version of Silverlight, which was Moonlight is also obsolete. That may be why the plugins no longer work. Because Microsoft has slowed development of Silverlight, open source development for Moonlight has halted. Pipelight could be coming to the same end.