I just saw a set of posts from Nathan VanCamp on Google Plus showing how to stream Netflix natively (no Silverlight, Pipelight, wine etc) using HTML 5. I had not seen this before, so I tried it and it works on OpenSUSE.
I used OpenSUSE 13.1 and Chrome Unstable (google-chrome-unstable package) from the Chrome repo http://dl.google.com/linux/rpm/stable/x86_64.
Getting a browser user-agent to be recognized by Netflix as being ready for HTML5 is tricky. This agent-switcher Chrome app does work . Use the append method to create a custom new user-agent, the indicator flag can be upto 3 characters I used IE, name can be anything. Agent string is Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Win 64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/38.0.2114.2 Safari/537.36 .
There is also a player preference setting in Netflix -
It uses a lot less CPU than the SilverLight on Pipelight plugin - which is nice.lol!
Cheers, Joe.
I used OpenSUSE 13.1 and Chrome Unstable (google-chrome-unstable package) from the Chrome repo http://dl.google.com/linux/rpm/stable/x86_64.
Getting a browser user-agent to be recognized by Netflix as being ready for HTML5 is tricky. This agent-switcher Chrome app does work . Use the append method to create a custom new user-agent, the indicator flag can be upto 3 characters I used IE, name can be anything. Agent string is Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Win 64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/38.0.2114.2 Safari/537.36 .
There is also a player preference setting in Netflix -
Prefer HTML5 player instead of Silverlight
.It uses a lot less CPU than the SilverLight on Pipelight plugin - which is nice.lol!
Cheers, Joe.