Pipelight is a special browser plugin which allows one to use windows only plugins inside Linux browsers.
Questions tagged [pipelight]
62 questions
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Is there an equivalent of Silverlight?
I need Silverlight installed on my Ubuntu system, so that I can see some of the Microsoft websites(mainly videos).
Are there any alternatives to Silverlight in Ubuntu? If so, what are they and how do I install them?
Ant's
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New HBO Nordic won't play
Am I the only one who can't get HBO Nordic to work after it changed to flash?
The flash player loads and seems fine, but the video never appears.
There are a lot of solutions for the old player, but I can't seem to find anything from after the…
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Unable to install silverlight in Ubuntu 16.04 after using tutorial from multiple sites
I have followed these procedures:
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:pipelight/stable
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ehoover/compholio
sudo update
sudo apt install wine-staging
sudo apt install --install-recommends pipelight-multi
sudo pipeline-plugin…
rancho
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slow pipelight silverlight
I've using Pipelight to stream Silverlight videos from one of the Polish sites: http://onet.tv. The vidoes are jerky though and can't keep up with the streaming. Any ideas how can I debug it? I'm using ubuntu 14.04, long support one.
sumek
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Pipelight Silverlight not working in Firefox
I installed pipelight and try to enable silverlight with
sudo pipelight-plugin --enable silverlight
And receive the message "Plugin silverlight5.1 is now enabled". But when I go to this page http://fds-team.de/pipelight/ with Firefox, the test is…
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pipelight Libraries: FAILURE
I installed pipelight and then executed this:
pipelight-plugin --system-check
The last lines of the output were:
libXrender.so.1: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXrender.so.1
libxslt.so.1: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxslt.so.1
libXxf86vm.so.1:…
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Pipelight not working with firefox or chrome
I installed pipelight by following the instructions on the website but it still does not work properly .
Kernel version
3.8.0-27-generic
When launching chrome the logs show up as . Can someone tell me what is wrong with my setup ?
n-linux:~$…
user258
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pipelight: error downloading wine-flash-installer
I've been trying to use pipelight to install Flash on Firefox so I can watch HBO Now. I am able to install Widevine and Silverlight without any issues but I get the following error in console when it tries to install Flash:
[install-dependency]…
Alex
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How do I get past the EULA screen in the terminal when trying to install Pipelight?
I am in the process of installing Pipelight (according to the directions I found online). I typed the sudo apt-get install pipelight command everything is fine until I get a EULA from Microsoft in the terminal from which I cannot "escape" to advance…
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Xfinity video not playing
When I try to watch Xfinity/Comcast videos, the actual video does not load.
I have installed Flash, then installed Pipelight and enabled Silverlight, Flash, Shockwave, and Unity3d.
Other Silverlight and Flash video sources work just fine, including…
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Youtube doesn't work anymore in firefox (Ubuntu 14.04)
Title says it all. Whenever I try to play a Youtube video I get the error messages:
Your browser does not recognize any of the video formats available
It worked fine just before I installed the pipelight plugin. I am very confused and annoyed at…
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How can I install pipelight-multi on Ubuntu 17.04 to steam Silverlight videos?
I have tried the following in order to install pipelight-multi so I can watch videos powered by Microsoft Silverlight (e.g HBO Now):
sudo apt-get install wine-staging
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pipelight/stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get…
Milad P.
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installing googale (גוגלה) children's website on ubuntu
Googale (גוגלה) is a Hebrew children's educational website designed for pre-K ages (4-5).
It is currently based on Microsoft Silverlight 5.1 technology.
Since Chrome and Firefox have recently discontinued their support in npapi plugins, Silverlight…
Amnon
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Netflix just stopped to work on LInux32+firefox
I have been using Netflix on 2 computers for weeks, both with Ubuntu 16, one is a 32 bits computer and the other is a 64 bits. I made them work reading this post: Now that I have Firefox 49 or higher, how do I watch Netflix? and they worked fine…
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Cannot full screen video in firefox while using Pipelight on hbonow
I recently subscribed to hbonow, which is unfortunately loaded with DRM that is very problematic to watch on linux. Fortunately I was able to get it working on Firefox using Pipelight by following these…
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