Pipelight Discontinued

booman · Mar 15, 2017

I just found out today that Pipelight is now discontinued. This is very unfortunate because it allowed Linux gamers to play Browser supported games and Unity web supported games. Not to mention Flash games and Netflix.

http://pipelight.net/

When I started working on Pipelight back in 2013, the main idea was to make Video On Demand services like Netflix and Amazon accessible on Linux in an easy fashion. Pipelight achieved this goal by wrapping between the Windows and the Linux version of NPAPI, the plugin interface supported by most browsers and plugins. In April 2015 however Chrome/Chromium dropped support for NPAPI, resulting in my favorite browser no longer supporting Pipelight. This was not very motivating but also had a positive side effect, as it forced content providers to find other solutions to protect their streams (HTML5 EME). While I dislike the solution of having a DRM module bundled with a browser (instead of having a DRM plugin that you can use with any browser), it made many services natively accessible on Linux. For most VOD services it is therefore no longer necessary to use Pipelight. By using a native (and often also sandboxed) DRM module you should get improved performance and better security than Pipelight could ever offer.
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