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tried that on firefox esr didnt work. go to watch a netflix video and it just loads then goes to a blank screen and doesnt load up the video.
firefox esr does not have the ability to stream video or anything else. You will have to install google chrome to stream. Or switch to a different linux flavor that does not use firefox esr. You needed full firefox not the esr release. I have dealt with this on debian distros before and it is why I prefer not to use them.
It does it is disabled by default - why I don't know - type about:config in the URL bar, hit enter, and set gfx.webrender.all to true. Then you want to set media.ffmpeg.vaapi.enabled to true and restart Firefox. Should be able to stream at least I can live stream from YouTube, CBS News, and a few others, I do not know about NetFlix since I do not use it
except you still can't enable DRM which is required for netflix and hulu. I stream them on fedora without issue. but anything with the ESR firefox version does not work. DRM is not there and from I found, can't be added. Was easier to use google chrome or switch away from debian so I could use full firefox that supports DRM.
Er.....'scuse me? THAT is a very misleading statement, I'm sorry to say.
I do not consider myself a beginner by any means but I have NEVER gotten it to work with firefox. Have you? can you provide step by step to make firefox ESR work? This is sort of a put your money where your mouth is kind of thing. If I am wrong I will have learned something, if I am right you will have learned something.Er.....'scuse me?
Firefox is not my favourite, primary browser. That has always been Chromium & its multitude of clones. For me, Firefox has invariably been a kind of emergency, 'backup' browser.....although in recent years, with the way it's improved out of all recognition I'm happy to use it by itself some days.
However: for years I have been happily watching NetFlix on both 'mainline' FF AND FF-esr. There's no difference here; the ESR releases are cloned from the 'mainline' every few releases, and the primary difference is a slower pace of development, primarily security patching and stability improvements. This is why it's the preferred choice for many organizations.......because it doesn't need such constant upgrading.
The 'mechanism', though, remains identical.
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As @gvisoc says, the Firefox implementation of the Widevine DRM plugin is super-simple. The very first time you attempt to watch anything that is DRM-encoded, you get a pop-up banner telling you that required components are being installed. Once that appears, the best thing to do is to close the tab, then re-open it again; the Widevine stuff is now installed, and will remain so until you enter Settings and manually untick the DRM checkbox.
(Tick the checkbox, it installs. Untick it, it uninstalls. You can't get much simpler than that.)
Libffmpeg is also a prerequisite for video playback in browsers. This is auto-installed in FF at the same time as Widevine.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~The primary reason most folks will recommend Chrome for watching DRM-encoded streaming video is simple; because, dating all the way back to Chrome v39 (around 2015), Chrome has come with Widevine AND libffmpeg pre-installed. The Widevine stuff used to just be in the main directory.......and although there was no sign of libffmpeg, it WAS there; Big Brother had built it directly into Chrome's main 'shared library' (the bit you need the well-known 'wrapper script' to launch).
The 'clones', being built on top of the exact same source code that comprises Chromium - the 'open-source' Project from where Google draw their stable builds of Chrome itself (adding a bit of proprietary code to the mix) - can use the same WidevineCdm sub-directory as Chrome itself. You will, however, need to add libffmpeg yourself; without this, even non-Widevine videos will refuse to play - including YouTube! - since it supplies all necessary/required video codecs for content to play within a browser.
Since developing, with invaluable assistance from other members, an entire range of self-contained 'portable' browsers for the Puppy Linux community, I've learnt a thing or two about how all this stuff functions, along with the easiest, most hassle-free methods for installing the components.
For DRM stuff, I simply 'borrow' the entire WidevineCdm sub-directory from a reasonably current build of Chrome itself. As long as this is placed within the main browser directory of ANY Chromium 'clone' - for instance, SRWare's Iron; Flashpeak's Slimjet; Opera; Chromium itself; Brave; Vivaldi.....even the current M$ Edge browser, it will automatically be picked-up and used, as & when required.
Libffmpeg has to be re-compiled under Chromium for each major release. Fortunately, there's a few helpful individuals who maintain small repositories of pre-built, ready-to-use instances of libffmpeg over at Github. Just make sure to pick the correct download for the major release version of whatever browser you're running; for 'clones' other than Chromium or Chrome themselves, you need to look for the release of Chromium that particular browser was built upon. Most clones use different release numbering systems to that of the browser used in their construction, so.......it CAN get a wee bit confusing to the uninitiated!
Mike.
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that is for regular firefox. we are talking about firefox ESR which I still will say DOES NOT DO DRM STREAMING. I asked about doing this for the ESR version. That version does not handle DRM content but somebody claims it does which I asked them to prove. The links provided work for regular firefox and it does not require 2 websites with 50 steps each to find the DRM box and put a check mark there. Restrict your answers to ESR version. Make sure you actually tested it to work first.and hereWatch DRM content on Firefox | Firefox Help
Learn about Digital Rights Management (DRM) content in Firefox and how to disable and re-enable DRM playback or troubleshoot problems.
Firefox DRM Basics and How to Enable Disable Content Protection
It incorporates the Google Widevine CDM to facilitate the playback of DRM-controlled content requiring to enable Firefox DRM through settings
yeah that is like rebuilding the car to fix the brake lights. having to do so much tells me that it does not work correctly.@APTI :-
Certainly. Happy to explain.......although the way we do it in Puppy probably won't be familiar to you, since we don't do this via the traditional package-management methods. This is more of a get-your-hands-dirty, digging-around-in-the-filesystem "belt'n'braces" manual approach, along with the addition of a couple of extra dependencies due to Puppy's adherence to traditional ALSA for audio. NO PulseAudio here.....so we use the 'apulse' library, which translates PulseAudio commands into direct ALSA 'calls', along with libatomic (without which FF simply won't run).
1) Visit here:-
2) Scroll down to the current ESR release (115.12.0.esr).
3) Enter, then click on the build you want; in this case, I will assume 'linux-x86_64' is required.
4) Select your language.
5) Finally, click on the bzipped tarball itself to download it.
6) Extract the tarball. You'll end up with a directory called, simply, 'firefox'.
7) We'll now bung this directory into /opt, and rename it to, say, 'firefox-esr-test', or something similar. Click to enter, then click directly on the 'firefox' binary to launch it.
8) Step through the initial setup pop-ups. Once you've clicked on 'Start browsing', we're ready for the next bit....
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~I'll open a new tab. I enter 'www.netflix.com', and enter the site, followed by signing-in. The next page asks who's watching; either me, or 'Kids', or 'Add new user'. The banner straightaway appears at the top of the page, to say that you need to enable DRM to watch, along with the 'Enable DRM' button. So, I click on it...at which point it changes to say components are being installed, and to please try again later.
Simply refreshing the page won't "cut the mustard" here. You need to log-out, close the tab, followed by re-opening the tab, launching NetFlix once more & signing-in again. Now I get the 'Home' page, playing whatever the current preview "suggestion" happens to be. I can scroll down to what I want to watch - if hovering over the item provides a working thumbnail, with sound, then I know libffmpeg has been installed correctly.......and clicking now launches my chosen item, with video & sound all behaving themselves..!
Well, it works for us...facilitated by the fact that Puppy runs AS the /root user anyway (so no need for any sudo-related stuff). You should be able to do this from your /home/user directory, I would imagine; it ought to work just as well.
(I have to add, your snapping at @GatorsFan was totally unnecessary. There is absolutely nothing in that linked article to suggest that it ONLY refers to 'mainline' Firefox. You know what they say, don'tcha? "When you're already in too deep, the best thing ya can do is to stop digging...")
Mike.
I saw that last time. I just checked a new debian install with firefox ESR and it is now there. but this must be something new in last 2 years. So now firefox ESR has the check mark. I learned something new.
