I can not play HBO videos in my Ubuntu 16.04 LTS in any of the browsers. How to fix this issue?

Question

I have tried everything, HBONOW on Ubuntu 16.04LTS, I also tried the HAL lib and still it doesn't work in Chromium or Firefox browser. I also removed the Adobe Flash Plugin and tried using the pipelight and it still doesn't work. Can anybody help me with detailed steps to get that running?

These are all the steps I went through

1. Tried all the Pipelight installation steps:

   sudo apt-get remove adobe-flashplugin
   sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pipelight/stable
   sudo apt-get update
   sudo apt-get install --install-recommends pipelight-multi
   sudo pipelight-plugin --update
   sudo pipelight-plugin --enable flash
   sudo pipelight-plugin --enable widevine
   sudo pipelight-plugin --enable silverlight
   sudo pipelight-plugin --update
   sudo pipelight-plugin --create-mozilla-plugins
   

   After doing all these steps, I tried restarting the browser and also the workstation. No luck.

2. Tried PlayOnLinux

   sudo apt install playonlinux
   playonlinux
   

   Installed the flash from here. But no luck.

3. I also tried running the alien and converted rpm files to Debian to install the Adobe Flash plugin PPAPI. No luck here as well. Downloaded the rpm file from Adobe place and converted it to deb package using the alien.

4. I also tried the Linux HAL lib

   sudo add-apt-repository ppa:flexiondotorg/hal-flash
   sudo apt update
   sudo apt install libhal1-flash
   cd ~/.adobe/Flash_Player
   rm -rf NativeCache AssetCache APSPrivateData2
   

   No luck here as well.

5. Removed all the flash plugin references and tried the manual file placement into the dpkg. It corrupted the filesystem and then I tried reinstalling UBUNTU from scratch.

All of them see to be successfull. While chrome shows a message in the console -

{
    "message": "[Conviva] [1525029893.539] [ERROR] [SDK] [Config] load(): error loading configuration from local storage: undefined"
}

Firefox tends to ask a question saying do you want to run the flash player - It seems kind of awkward to me that even after I say, run - Nothing seems to work. There is no message in the console of the browser as well.

Here is an image what happens after installing the flash player:

Answer 1

Download Mozilla Firefox ESR 52.9.0(Windows 32 bit version) and install with PlayOnLinux, and Mozilla Firefox default profile, using "Use an installation file on my computer" option and selecting "Flash Player" during installation.