Re: [directory-discuss] Pipelight - View Netflix

[David Hedlund]

The Pipelight developer (Michael Müller <address@hidden>) said:

Pipelight does not contain any DRM code, all parts are open source.

Nevertheless, I don't think that the description below is exactly
correct. Pipelight is not a reimplementation of Silverlight (like
Moonlight) but instead it is wrapper. Pipelight translates between the
Win32 and Unix version of the Netscape Plugin API (NPAPI).

We provide a native browser plugin which internally starts Wine to load
the original Win32 plugin. This means that you are actually using
Silverlight through Wine if you watch a Netflix video with Pipelight.
The necessary DRM code is provided by Silverlight. A more precise
description can be found at [1] (slides 5 - 11).

Pipelight is also not limited to Silverlight, but in theory supports all
NPAPI plugins which work in Wine (Staging). A list of officially
supported plugins can be found at [2].

Kind Regards,
Michael Müller

[1]
http://wiki.winehq.org/FOSDEM2014?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=pipelight-netflix-via-wine-2014.pdf
[2]http://pipelight.net/cms/installation.html#section_2