Solution: DSTV Box Office and Linux MInt (Ubuntu)

[TheShaun]

I was trying to watch a movie that I rented from box office dstv today.
To my surprise this didn't work on google chrome.
I then did try it against Firefox, I first had to install the latest flash player .
Restart machine when I tried to watch it, it still didn't play but this time a got a message on flash (it was looking for DRM Module)

After a bit of googling I got this article
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=178019

Basically you need to install the following:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mjblenner/ppa-hal
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install hal

This automatically installed hal1 package aswell.

I restarted machine again and then the local afrikaans movie played on DSTV Box Office (Had to play it through FireFox, Chrome still gave issue but I think it is because chrome uses its own flash Player)

I'm running Linux Mint 17.1, Firefox 39.0 and Adobe Flash Plug-in : 1:20150716.1-0trusty1

If this didn't help, I would suggest googling "Instant Amazon Video" and "hal" or
"DRM"

 

[Willie Senekal]

May I ask why Linux Mint and not Ubuntu? And on what hardware?
Anyway, the solution seems very interesting and worth trying.

 

[Willie Senekal]

Not to worry. Over the weekend I installed Mint Cinnamon and now I understand why.
And the Box Office Player works just fine.