Netflix not working with Basilisk

[Nick2018]

Hello,

I am having trouble viewing Netflix with Basilisk. I keep getting; "Basilisk is installing components need to play the audio or video on this page. Please try again later." Widevine was automatically updated on 14-Feb-19. Could this be the problem?

Netflix works perfectly with Pale Moon.

Please help!

Thank you.

[Nick2018]

Widevine just updated again but Netflix still doesn't work.

[New Tobin Paradigm]

Netflix on Pale Moon still uses Silverlight. The EME DRM issue is being tracked here Issue 962.

Off-topic:
Fucking DRM...

[Moonchild]

While we are working on the EME DRM licensing/API issue, you should do the following:

• Go to Preferences -> content, and uncheck "Play DRM content"; this disables Google Widevine/HTML5 DRM
• Install Silverlight 5 from https://www.microsoft.com/Silverlight/
• Restart the browser, and check if the Silverlight plug-in is present in Add-ons -> plugins
• Revisit Netflix, and ignore the infobar telling you to enable DRM
• When Silverlight asks you to play protected content, allow it.

That should set you up for using Silverlight for Netflix.

[Nick2018]

Hello,

I appreciate the help but it does not work. I already have the latest version of Silverlight and it works well in Pale Moon. It is shown as available in Basilisk as well. It doesn't matter if I uncheck play DRM content or not. Either way Netflix tells me that I have to enable it. If it is checked it try's to play but stalls. Unchecked it just says "Oops something went wrong, try again." and gives an error code.

I can just use Pale Moon. Plus I have a version of ForecastFox(Fix) running on it even though you cannot add or change locations anymore. I wish that I new how to fix it or get the developer to fix it. He went with the new Mozilla style.

Thanks for all of your hard work.

Nick

[coffeebreak]

I already have the latest version of Silverlight and it works well in Pale Moon. It is shown as available in Basilisk as well. It doesn't matter if I uncheck play DRM content or not. Either way Netflix tells me that I have to enable it.

Here is something to try (which I can't test because I don't have a Netflix account)...

Pale Moon has coded-in site-specific user agent overrides for netflix.com and netflximg.net through which it spoofs itself to Netflix as being Firefox 45.9.

You can see them in Pale Moon if you open about:config and filter on general.useragent.override.netfl

Possibly if you add the same overrides to Basilisk, Netflix will work for Basilisk the same as it does for Pale Moon.

UA override for netflix.com

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general.useragent.override.netflix.com

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:45.9) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/45.9

UA override for netflximg.net

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general.useragent.override.netflximg.net

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:45.9) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/45.9

If you need instruction on how to do this, take a look at this post which concerns a different site and override, and adapt the directions.

[Nick2018]

Hi Coffeebreak,

Your suggestion worked like a charm! I ignored the activate DRM and then tried to view Netflix. I had to activate Silverlight and the video started playing.

Thank you very much!

Now if I could only find out how to fix ForecastFox(Fix) and save all of my extensions that I use that are no longer available.

Thank you again!

[billmcct]

Now if I could only find out how to fix ForecastFox(Fix) and save all of my extensions that I use that are no longer available.

Try this thread to set forecast fox to your location.
viewtopic.php?f=46&t=21052

[Nick2018]

Bill,

Thank you for the thread. It worked great once I figured out a few things. Do you know what the symbol is that looks like quotation marks but not exactly? This had me confused until I just copied it.

Thanks.

Nick

[billmcct]

I don't know. All mine has is quotation marks " ".