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  Re: HAL Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> - 2015-12-28 03:50 +0100
    Re: HAL Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> - 2015-12-28 03:50 +0100
      Re: HAL Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us> - 2015-12-28 04:30 +0100
        Re: HAL Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> - 2015-12-28 07:50 +0100
      Re: HAL Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2015-12-28 09:00 +0100
      Re: HAL kamaraju kusumanchi <raju.mailinglists@gmail.com> - 2015-12-29 08:40 +0100
        Re: HAL Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2015-12-29 16:40 +0100
        Re: HAL Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2015-12-29 16:40 +0100

#162140 — Re: HAL

Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Monday 28 December 2015 00:59:38 Sven Hartge wrote:
>> Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> wrote:

>>> Is there any way I can install HAL in Jessie?  Or do I need to wipe
>>> it, and reinstall Wheezy on the box on which I need HAL?

>> The real question is: "Why do you need HAL?"

> Because, criminal offence though I fully understand it to be, I want
> to use my television to watch UK Channel 4 catch-up TV and Amazon
> Prime Video.  For that I need the computer attached to my television
> to run Flash-player.

> I know that I can get the setup running in Wheezy.  The question is
> whether I can do so it Jessie.  But the stumbling block, I think is
> that I need HAL.

> As I say, I know that such behaviour is a criminal offence, so please,
> people, can we not go there.

Problem is, and I think you know this, HAL has been deprecated since
quite a long time and is no longer available or even compatible with a
reasonably modern Linux system.

But I see there is a package named libhal1-flash available from
Christian Marillat in his deb-multimedia.org repository. It contains the
code from https://github.com/cshorler/hal-flash.

The package description says it is exactly for the purpose you intent to
use it:

,----
| Description: Compatibility library to allow playback of flash DRM content
|  The Adobe Flash web browser plugin for Linux relies upon libhal to provide
|  information required by libadobecp (which libflashplayer.so retrieves from
|  the internet) for playing back drm content.
|  
|  Since HAL is no longer centric to most modern Linux systems (now we have
|  UDev, UDisks etc) - I'm only really providing this library because I see a
|  growing trend in the UK: ITV, Lovefilm and others are now using Silverlight
|  rather than Flash for their drm streams. Currently Silverlight DRM
|  protected content isn't supported on Linux (I'd like to see this change - I
|  have nothing against Silverlight).
`----

I think this may solve your problems without frankensteining your Debian
installation.

Grüße,
Sven.

-- 
Sigmentation fault. Core dumped.

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#162146

Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> wrote:

> But I see there is a package named libhal1-flash available from
> Christian Marillat in his deb-multimedia.org repository. It contains the
> code from https://github.com/cshorler/hal-flash.

Hmm, libhal1-flash is only available for Stretch and Sid. I wonder why.

Maybe you can ask Christian if he could rebuild the package for Jessie.

In the meantime, to get you your TV fix, here are versions of
libhal1-flash recompiled on Jessie for amd64 and i386:

http://ftp.thm.de/dvzdebian/its-jessie/libhal1-flash_0.3.2-dmo2~its80+1_amd64.deb
http://ftp.thm.de/dvzdebian/its-jessie/libhal1-flash_0.3.2-dmo2~its80+1_i386.deb

Grüße,
Sven.

-- 
Sigmentation fault. Core dumped.

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#162148

Lisi,

Does the flashplugin-nonfree package in Jessie not work for you?  It is
a plugin for Iceweasel/Firefox.  Or do you need something else?

See also:  https://wiki.debian.org/FlashPlayer/

- Nate

-- 

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#162153

Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us> wrote:

> Does the flashplugin-nonfree package in Jessie not work for you?  It is
> a plugin for Iceweasel/Firefox.  Or do you need something else?

> See also:  https://wiki.debian.org/FlashPlayer/

The problem is not the Flash plugin, but the DRM code that is loaded
from Adobe, which needs libhal.

Grüße,
Sven

-- 
Sigmentation fault. Core dumped.

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#162155

On Monday 28 December 2015 02:30:44 Sven Hartge wrote:
> Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> wrote:
> > But I see there is a package named libhal1-flash available from
> > Christian Marillat in his deb-multimedia.org repository. It contains the
> > code from https://github.com/cshorler/hal-flash.
>
> Hmm, libhal1-flash is only available for Stretch and Sid. I wonder why.
>
> Maybe you can ask Christian if he could rebuild the package for Jessie.
>
> In the meantime, to get you your TV fix, here are versions of
> libhal1-flash recompiled on Jessie for amd64 and i386:
>
> http://ftp.thm.de/dvzdebian/its-jessie/libhal1-flash_0.3.2-dmo2~its80+1_amd
>64.deb
> http://ftp.thm.de/dvzdebian/its-jessie/libhal1-flash_0.3.2-dmo2~its80+1_i38
>6.deb

Thank you, Sven. :-))  I am sitting here with a broad smile on my face at your 
kindness.  You have really cheered me up - and I needed it this morning!  
I'll report back.

Lisi

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#162176

On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 9:30 PM, Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> wrote:
> Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> wrote:
>
>> But I see there is a package named libhal1-flash available from
>> Christian Marillat in his deb-multimedia.org repository. It contains the
>> code from https://github.com/cshorler/hal-flash.
>
> Hmm, libhal1-flash is only available for Stretch and Sid. I wonder why.
>
> Maybe you can ask Christian if he could rebuild the package for Jessie.
>

I submitted a request
https://www.deb-multimedia.org/lurker/message/20151229.072257.84867e7b.en.html

-- 
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi | http://raju.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Blog

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#162184

On Tuesday 29 December 2015 07:31:02 kamaraju kusumanchi wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 9:30 PM, Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> wrote:
> > Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> wrote:
> >> But I see there is a package named libhal1-flash available from
> >> Christian Marillat in his deb-multimedia.org repository. It contains the
> >> code from https://github.com/cshorler/hal-flash.
> >
> > Hmm, libhal1-flash is only available for Stretch and Sid. I wonder why.
> >
> > Maybe you can ask Christian if he could rebuild the package for Jessie.
>
> I submitted a request
> https://www.deb-multimedia.org/lurker/message/20151229.072257.84867e7b.en.h
>tml

Thanks you.  Sorry for any muddle I have managed to cause.  Blame 
senility. :-(

Lisi

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#162185

On Tuesday 29 December 2015 07:41:10 kamaraju kusumanchi wrote:
> > Because, criminal offence though I fully understand it to be, I want to
> > use my television to watch UK Channel 4 catch-up TV and Amazon Prime
> > Video.  For that I need the computer attached to my television to run
> > Flash-player.
> >
> > I know that I can get the setup running in Wheezy.  The question is
> > whether I can do so it Jessie.  But the stumbling block, I think is that
> > I need HAL.
>
> May I ask what browser you are using to watch Amazon Prime Video? 

As of yesterday, Google Chrome.  

> When 
> I tried it in Iceweasel, I get the following error
>
> Unsupported Browser
> This web browser isn't compatible with Amazon Video. Please use one of
> the following web browsers:
>   Google Chrome (latest version)

I now get the same error with Iceweasel as you got, which is different from 
last time I bothered with Amazon Prime Video, and it works fine in Google 
Chrome.  It didn't last time I investigated.

Channel 4, however, now comes up with a black screen once the video starts 
(the static picture is there fine).  Channel 5 is equally bad, but so far 
there has never been anything I actually wanted to watch on Channel 5.  The 
other channels work fine.  Including now in Iceweasel, since this package of 
Sven's.  (Previously most of the channels worked in Chrome, but not in 
Iceweasel.)  Thank you, Sven.  All I have to do now is find out why Channel 4 
remains resolutely black when Flashplayer is running.

Lisi

Lisi

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