Linux: cannot watch Toggle

[iron2000]

Anyone knows how to watch Toggle on Linux?

The result always not consistent, sometimes I can make some videos (mostly locally produced content) watchable and sometimes all cannot watch (just a black layer instead of the video) and sometimes it complain not DRM compatible.

Running Linux Mint 18 Xfce on an old 2007 PC.
Tried HAL-flash and Firefox with CORS Everywhere.
Tried Wine with Firefox for Windows.
All cannot.

 

[davidktw]

Anyone knows how to watch Toggle on Linux?

The result always not consistent, sometimes I can make some videos (mostly locally produced content) watchable and sometimes all cannot watch (just a black layer instead of the video) and sometimes it complain not DRM compatible.

Running Linux Mint 18 Xfce on an old 2007 PC.
Tried HAL-flash and Firefox with CORS Everywhere.
Tried Wine with Firefox for Windows.
All cannot.

Let's see if this helps. http://www.howtogeek.com/240636/everything-you-need-to-know-about-watching-drmd-media-on-linux/

Btw Toggle uses Microsoft Silverlight

 

[ykgoh]

Let's see if this helps. http://www.howtogeek.com/240636/everything-you-need-to-know-about-watching-drmd-media-on-linux/

Btw Toggle uses Microsoft Silverlight

Nobody uses Silverlight in all honesty. And even Microsoft has given up on it. MediaCorp is still hanging on to it.

Microsoft: Stop using Microsoft Silverlight. (Everyone else has)

Microsoft: We're not killing Silverlight in Windows 10, but stop using it anyway

Netflix set to abandon Silverlight but introduce DRM for Web video

Silverlight is an old technology introduced in 2007 and latest major version was released in 2011 (5 years ago). It is dead, let it go. Not usable on iOS and Android too. MediaCorp probably expects people to stay home and watch videos on their Windows PCs and laptops.

 

[localITguy]

Nobody uses Silverlight in all honesty. And even Microsoft has given up on it. MediaCorp is still hanging on to it.

http://m.theregister.co.uk/2015/07/02/microsoft_silverlight/

just look at the site, it tells you alot

 

[davidktw]

Nobody uses Silverlight in all honesty. And even Microsoft has given up on it. MediaCorp is still hanging on to it.

Microsoft: Stop using Microsoft Silverlight. (Everyone else has)

Microsoft: We're not killing Silverlight in Windows 10, but stop using it anyway

Netflix set to abandon Silverlight but introduce DRM for Web video

Silverlight is an old technology introduced in 2007 and latest major version was released in 2011 (5 years ago). It is dead, let it go. Not usable on iOS and Android too. MediaCorp probably expects people to stay home and watch videos on their Windows PCs and laptops.

You are encouraged to write in to MC and highlight to them for a technology revamp

 

[ykgoh]

Anyone knows how to watch Toggle on Linux?

The result always not consistent, sometimes I can make some videos (mostly locally produced content) watchable and sometimes all cannot watch (just a black layer instead of the video) and sometimes it complain not DRM compatible.

Running Linux Mint 18 Xfce on an old 2007 PC.
Tried HAL-flash and Firefox with CORS Everywhere.
Tried Wine with Firefox for Windows.
All cannot.

I wonder if you have tried out Pipelight?

http://pipelight.net/cms/about.html

Pipelight is a wrapper for using Windows plugins in Linux browsers and therefore giving you the possibility to access services which are otherwise not available for Linux users. Typical examples of such services are Netflix and Amazon Instant, which both use the proprietary browser plugin Silverlight. These services cannot normally be used on Linux since this plugin is only available for Windows, and the only open source alternative (Moonlight) is lacking support for DRM.

Pipelight helps you access these services by using the original Silverlight plugin directly in your browser, all while giving you a better hardware acceleration and performance than a virtual machine. Besides Silverlight, you can also use a variety of other plugins that are supported by Pipelight. Take a look at the installation page for a complete list.

Pipelight uses a patched wine version to provide a windows environment to the plugins, but you do not need to worry about this as Pipelight will take care of installing, configuring and updating all supported plugins. From the perspective of the browser these plugins will behave just like any other normal Linux plugin after you have enabled them.

 

[iron2000]

Ok got it working with Pipelight, some wine wrapper that lets Linux Firefox run Windows Silverlight.
Limitation is need to refresh the video page once for it to kick in.

Linux always got this kind of problem, makes it hard to compete with Windows and macOS.

My last problem was setting a custom screen resolution and making it stick on restart, found some script to put in the /etc folder or something.

Thanks guys

 

[bosssaizo]

You need to download microsoft silverlight...