Supersport streaming dead on linux (ubuntu)

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I've been streaming supersport through chrome (linux) for years now. It stopped worked this week (on both chrome and firefox, on 2x machines) after it had been going smoothly for sometime. Anybody else?

This has happened from time to time..sometimes SS to blame for ****ty code on a ****ty platform..but sometimes it is a linux update that needs to be done.

Any advice?
Justin
 
I run fedora updates nightly without rebooting and noticed this morning that flash wasn't working on Firefox (v45.0) when running a speedtest, rebooted and all's well again.

Edit: flash-plugin.i386 11.2.202.569-release
 
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in this case it is a combination of flash and silverlight :/
nonetheless it was working before
 
Mine not working in chrome, but works in firefox. Mint KDE.
 
in firefox I am getting a "Downloading DRM Module" msg and then it hangs
any ideas? :(
 
Glad to see I am not the only one... tried fee solutions but nothing worked.

Even found this "sudo apt-get install pepperflashplugin-nonfree" but doesn't seem to work as I am unable to load the streaming page. Clicking the link nothing happens.
 
My android box all of a sudden says it is "rooted", but it is not. So stopped now :(
 
Only way to stream Supersport is through the DSTV Now app on Android.
 
I can confirm not working on Ubuntu on Chrome and Firefox.
Works fine on windows and DSTV now app on Android.

Anyone got a fix for this?
 
It seems to be an authentication issue that chrome on linux isn't handling properly. Firefox on Linux Mint doing supersport streams no problem.
 
Hi guys, if you'd like to not go the route of installing windows versions of anything, I found a way to continue watching it in any browser. While watching on a Windows laptop, the DRM plugin crashed and I could see which one they're using (Widevine). Further investigation led me to a way that you can watch it on linux by enabling Widevine. It still makes use of wine for certain plugins, but you are still running it ~90% natively. I run Fedora 24, but it should work on your distro by tweaking the install commands (I have to add that I've got the RPMFusion repositories enabled):

sudo dnf install pipelight -y
sudo pipelight-plugin --enable widevine
sudo pipelight-plugin --enable silverlight (not necessary for chrome)
sudo pipelight-plugin --enable flash (not necessary for chrome)

Open your browser of choice and continue watching :)

When launching Firefox, it creates a new Wine Prefix and installs necessary plugins there. Chrome did not do this.

Hope this helps :)
 
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jofly said:
Hi guys, if you'd like to not go the route of installing windows versions of anything, I found a way to continue watching it in any browser. While watching on a Windows laptop, the DRM plugin crashed and I could see which one they're using (Widevine). Further investigation led me to a way that you can watch it on linux by enabling Widevine. It still makes use of wine for certain plugins, but you are still running it ~90% natively. I run Fedora 24, but it should work on your distro by tweaking the install commands (I have to add that I've got the RPMFusion repositories enabled):

sudo dnf install pipelight -y
sudo pipelight-plugin --enable widevine
sudo pipelight-plugin --enable silverlight (not necessary for chrome)
sudo pipelight-plugin --enable flash (not necessary for chrome)

Open your browser of choice and continue watching :)

When launching Firefox, it creates a new Wine Pipe and installs necessary plugins there. Chrome did not do this.

Hope this helps :)
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No need for all this since supersport dropped flash - it works fine now out of the box on chrome or firefox on mint 18.
 
Grouter said:
No need for all this since supersport dropped flash - it works fine now out of the box on chrome or firefox on mint 18.
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Thanks for the info! Not really a chrome user, should probably have checked it again before trying to figure out FF.
 
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