[mythtv-users] mythtv netflix hack

[Evuraan]

> Rob,
> I am in the middle of re-writing much of the scripts so I have added
> your suggestion as a conditional. I have the screen saver shut off on my
> mythbox and am only using my desktop for further development so I don't
> notice the screen saver issues.
>
> Thank you
> Greg

Good news! (if you hadn't heard this already):

netflix plays natively on chrome 38 (even on 12.04 precise!) :

http://liliputing.com/2014/10/netflix-now-supports-linux-via-google-chrome.html

A little about what I did to make it work on 12.04: downloaded and
installed latest libnss3, libnss3-1d and  libnss3-nssdb from
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/n/nss/?C=M;O=D



$ dpkg -l |egrep "libnss|libxss|google"
ii  google-chrome-stable                   38.0.2125.101-1
               The web browser from Google
ii  libnss3                                2:3.17.1-0ubuntu1
               Network Security Service libraries
ii  libnss3-1d                             2:3.17.1-0ubuntu1
               Network Security Service libraries - transitional
package
ii  libnss3-nssdb                          2:3.17.1-0ubuntu1
               Network Security Security libraries - shared databases
ii  libxss1                                1:1.2.1-2
               X11 Screen Saver extension library

~/Downloads$ ls -ltrh *deb
-rw-rw-r-- 1 foo foo  46M Oct 11 17:00 google-chrome-stable_current_i386(1).deb
-rw-rw-r-- 1 foo foo 9.2K Oct 11 17:45 libnss3-1d_3.17.1-0ubuntu1_i386.deb
-rw-rw-r-- 1 foo foo 1.2M Oct 11 17:45 libnss3_3.17.1-0ubuntu1_i386.deb
-rw-rw-r-- 1 foo foo  11K Oct 11 17:45 libnss3-nssdb_3.17.1-0ubuntu1_all.deb

# dpkg -i ~/Downloads/*deb
#  apt-get install libxss1

(libxss1 was a requiredment for chrome38)

to download chrome 38:
https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_i386.deb

We're watching Thomas & Friends as I type. Once my boy lets me tinker
again, I'd see whether I can offload more to vdpau..


tldr ->  hopefully it should not be too hard to extend Greg's work to
make lirc work on this, we then should be golden!