[ziomario]

Hello to everyone.

I'm a regular subscriber of NowTV. I like it because some good sport events. I don't know if you already know that it does not want us to watch the NowTV events using Linux. I tried several browsers like Firefox,Chrome and Edge installed on Linux and I've got the error "unsupported browser" ; really it lies,because what is unsupported is the os,but they aren't clear,they don't tell the clear truth. You can imagine why. I will be a politically incorrect behavior ? Anyway. They want that we use Windows. But I don't want. The Oses that I use every day are Linux and FreeBSD. I don't want to give up by watching NowTV. I want watch it using the OS I want. I pay to watch it,they can't force me to use Windows. I think I have only one arrow in my bow : to try to install and run Kodi for Windows on Linux with wine and then try to run Firefox within Kodi,following this thread :

https://www.reddit.com/r/kodi/comments/7...from_kodi/

I tried to run kodi for windows /the 64 bit version/ on Ubuntu 23.10 with wine (vers. 8.0.1). It has been able to install it correctly. But when I tried to run the executable directly it didn't work :

marietto@marietto-BHYVE:~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Kodi$ wine Kodi.exe

vkd3d:err:shader_parse_input_signature Failed to parse input signature. 0104:err:d3d11:d3d11_input_layout_to_wined3d_declaration Failed to extract input signature, ret -3.

someone found the same error and has been able to fix it ?

[CrystalP]

I'm not a linux user but it sounds like you need Firefox to run under wine, not Kodi. A native Kodi should be able to launch an emulated Firefox as external player?
And I'm no user of streaming with browsers but maybe you can change the user agent or find some way to masquerade your linux Firefox as a Windows Firefox and avoid going through wine.

[ziomario]

--> you can change the user agent

tried several times. It does not work.

--> or find some way to masquerade your linux Firefox as a Windows Firefox.

Hard /at least for me/ guess how to do that.

[fritsch]

Use KVM and just install plain windows ... started from KVM ... If you play with the devil you won't change the devil, but he will change you ...

[ziomario]

Windows is the same if it is installed physically or virtually...I don't want to use Windows. Wine is good,because using it it does not mean that you are using Windows. WISW = Wine Is Not Windows.

[ziomario]

sorry : WINW.

[fritsch]

Whatever - I would not give money to someone that wants to enforce windows on you ... but yeah - good luck.

[ziomario]

Sure. I will not give money to it forever. I am trying different strategies to be able to use Linux. When I have exhausted all the ideas and I will be tired, I will not renew.

[Segfault]

Did not read whole thread, but have you tried the simplest thing – changing the identification of browser? Can be done with a command line switch or with an extension.

[ziomario]

Yeah. Never worked.

[bluzee]

My opinion for what it's worth is that if you can't get in with simple user agent spoofing then the website is probably doing something that they should not be doing. I would flag this as a malevolent site and not return. Some web developers just don't know enough check user agent properly and accidentally block users. In this case just spoof user agent and everything will work as it should.

[ziomario]

I think that the NowTV developers have implemented some useful tecnique to check if the user is running Windows or not. Because if I use Windows I'm always able to watch the contents. I'm not so experienced to understand which kind of check(s) they have implemented. So I can't know if they are doing some malicious action. But I am sure that forcing users to use some operating systems and not others is a monopolistic action that should be sanctioned by the antitrust. This has already happened in the past years to Microsoft with Internet Explorer....

[ziomario]

I'm sure that forcing users to use some operating systems and not others is a monopolistic action that should be sanctioned by the Antitrust. This has already happened in the past years to Microsoft with Internet Explorer. And Microsoft had been obliged to open up its browser to the market and to the users, avoiding proposing / forcing them the choices that it considered convenient only for itself. Now, you are not the Antitrust, but if the Antitrust followed the logic I just described, webmasters had to adapt too. And you are a webmaster who is not following that logic. Moreover, the monopolistic logic is incompatible with the logic behind the free / open source software.

[ziomario]

And you are a webmaster who is not following that logic.

Errata corrige :

And if you are a good webmaster,you should follow that logic.

[Segfault]

Out of curiosity, is macOS supported? If it is then you may try your luck spoofing macOS client.