HOWTO: Install Netflix on Gentoo

[cctsurf]

as root:

Code:

echo ">app-emulation/wine-1.5.30" >> /etc/portage/packages.mask



Download Patches from http://www.compholio.com/wine-compholio/#patches
if your patches were from wine-1.5.29 or before, re-download the patches for wine 1.5.30 and above, they have changed.



Code:

mkdir /etc/portage/patches/app-emulation/wine-1.5.30 -p cp *.patch /etc/portage/patches/app-emulation/wine-1.5.30/ emerge wine winetricks

as user:

Install Firefox in wine:

Code:

wget -O Firefox-18.0.2.exe http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-18.0.2\&os=win\&lang=en-US; wine Firefox-18.0.2.exe /S


Install Silverlight in wine:

Code:

wget -O Silverlight-4.exe http://silverlight.dlservice.microsoft.com/download/6/A/1/6A13C54D-3F35-4082-977A-27F30ECE0F34/10329.00/runtime/Silverlight.exe; wine Silverlight-4.exe /q


Install Fonts:

Code:

winetricks allfonts


Verify Extended Attribute support: (if these fail, we'll have to make certain that extended attributes are enabled)


Code:

cd ~/.wine touch tt setfattr -n "user.testAttr" -v "attribute value" tt getfattr tt


If the above fails we have to check whether our kernel supports extended attributes

Code:

grep XATTR

in either /boot/config-?.?.?-gentoo or /usr/src/linux/.config
If XATTR is not enabled for your root and home file systems, it must be enabled in the kernel config
Whether or not XATTR is enabled, if the system fails the Extended Attribute support, we must add it to /etc/fstab by adding user_xattr to the options in fstab (ie defaults,user_xattr) for the / filesystem. you can remount without rebooting by using

Code:

mount / -o remount


I had to set opengl to x11-org: as root

Code:

eselect opengl set xorg-x11


Start Firefox in Wine:

Code:

wine "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" http://netflix.com/


login to Netflix as you normally would and try to stream something
Troubleshooting:
if error N8156-6022 you have XATTR problems
if error N8156-6013: find mspr.hds under ~.wine and delete it

[cctsurf]

Works beautifully on my desktop, however, I'm running into an error on my laptop (actually the same error on my netflix-desktop on my kubuntu computer).
The Error is n8102-154-3035, just as silverlight is beginning streaming, it seems to be a network error, Netflix says, "does your network limit streaming?", or possibly "is your ip address outside of the netflix country?"

[charetjc]

I hear the audio, but no video.

During playback, firefox stops updating the browser window and my terminal is spammed with

[666threesixes666]

hi ive written wiki.gentoo.orgs sudo, git, rails, passenger and other wikis.... someone told me that with netflix you get so many accounts to give away.... if you were to hook it up with a netflix guest account id work to get it running linux native. i was looking into "start your free month" but i only have a check card with like 2 dollars on it.
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[cctsurf]

@charetjc:
Did you change your opengl to x11-org? (I know, it sounds crazy, but it works.)

[efudd]

Hmm. this just gives me a 1001 error saying the player could not be loaded. :/

*EDIT* tried again from scratch...

The 1001 error may have been caused by my failure to use winetricks to install allfonts.

Also, it looks like the opengl thing can be done without restarting X11... I set, started the app and all was good (stuck at 98% streaming for a while).

Not getting an HD stream yet, however.. thank you, tho!

-e

[jaake]

I know it says to find mspr.hds in ~/.wine but I can't find that file anywhere.
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[gary987]

Patches no longer compile?

/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/wine-1.5.26/work/wine-1.5.26/dlls/ws2_32/socket.c: In function 'WSAIoctl':
/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/wine-1.5.26/work/wine-1.5.26/dlls/ws2_32/socket.c:3397:8: error: too many arguments to function '_is_blocking'
/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/wine-1.5.26/work/wine-1.5.26/dlls/ws2_32/socket.c:806:12: note: declared here
x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -m32 -c -I/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/wine-1.5.26/work/wine-1.5.26/dlls/wsock32 -I. -I/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/wine-1.5.26/work/wine-1.5.26/include -I../../include -D__WINESRC__ -D_REENTRANT -fPIC -Wall -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wempty-body -Wignored-qualifiers -Wstrict-prototypes -Wtype-limits -Wunused-but-set-parameter -Wwrite-strings -fno-omit-frame-pointer -Wpointer-arith -Wlogical-op -I/usr/include/freetype2 -O2 -pipe -march=athlon64-sse3 -U_FORTIFY_SOURCE -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=0 -o socket.o /var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/wine-1.5.26/work/wine-1.5.26/dlls/wsock32/socket.c
make[1]: *** [socket.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/wine-1.5.26/work/wine-1.5.26-x86/dlls/ws2_32'
make: *** [dlls/ws2_32] Error 2
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....

[cctsurf]

If your patches are not compiling, new versions of the patch are available that now support versions 1.5.27 and 1.5.28 please redownload the patches from the site above.
Note that I edit and update the post as I have the opportunity to try new versions of wine with netflix.

with regard to finding mspr.hds, try the following:

[siknasa9]

Anyone know a way to bypass the silverlight upgrade? I searched and the only "fix" I found was to delete a folder that is only created on the Ubuntu install.
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[jpicard]

@cctsurf

Thanks for your guide. I was a able to get it working with wine-9999 winetricks-99999999. When installing firefox and silverlight I had not use the /S and /q flags, otherwise wine couldn't execute the installers. They can't have been too important since it worked without them, but what were those flags supposed to do?

[NuMPTy]

Worked great for me, thanks for the how-to

Edit:: Actually, apparently not so great. It seems to be extremely choppy, even on the lowest quality setting (CPU isn't maxed). Box that I'm testing on:

3.8.6-gentoo #1 SMP Thu Apr 11 07:24:28 EDT 2013 x86_64 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X3440 @ 2.53GHz

Nvidia 460GTX 768MB for Video

Any ideas?
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[gary987]

[charetjc]

[cctsurf]

Has charetjc's post worked for people? I've not had to upgrade silverlight yet, so I'm not a good test case. I'll follow his directions when I can get a moment and see how they work...
I'm not getting notifications on this thread anymore, that's annoying, I didn't see this until I was updating for wine-1.5.30.

If you are wanting to try his directions and keep your current wine install for backup, you can do the following:

[cctsurf]

This upgrade failed for me. I had audio but no picture. Erich notes in the forum you referenced that he cannot support silverlight 5, but that we should only be upgrading to the latest silverlight-4.