{"id":47,"date":"2015-11-18T20:54:51","date_gmt":"2015-11-18T19:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.softwolves.com\/wolfblog\/?p=47"},"modified":"2015-11-18T20:56:06","modified_gmt":"2015-11-18T19:56:06","slug":"watching-the-wwe-network-on-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.softwolves.com\/wolfblog\/2015\/11\/18\/watching-the-wwe-network-on-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"Watching the WWE Network on Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, I confess, I am a\u00a0fan of pro wrestling. You know, that weird US-American show-style wrestling where people <a href=\"http:\/\/entertainment.howstuffworks.com\/pro-wrestling.htm\">pretend to beat each other up<\/a>? Hulk Hogan and Ric Flair? No, okay, then you don&#8217;t need to continue reading.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway,\u00a0I am a fan, I even have a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.softwolves.pp.se\/wrestling\/\">website dedicated to it<\/a>, and I am subscribed to the <a href=\"http:\/\/network.wwe.com\/\">WWE Network<\/a>, an on-line channel\u00a0where WWE broadcast their live events and I have access to their back archive. I subscribed when they opened international subscriptions back\u00a0in August 2014, and\u00a0among others, I have watched it on my PCs running Linux. It has worked flawlessly, until a few weeks ago, when it started developing error messages and then stopped playing completely.<\/p>\n<p>Contacting their technical support didn&#8217;t help, once they heard about me running Linux they just stopped responding, both on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/WWENetwork\/posts\/928240870596349?comment_id=928355190584917&amp;notif_t=share_comment\">Facebook<\/a> and e-mail. Despite it having worked perfectly before, apparently since it is unsupported they do not want to look at ways of fixing it. So, what to do?<\/p>\n<p>I ended up finding a workaround in installing\u00a0the Windows\u00a0(32-bit) version of Firefox and\u00a0Flash Player under <a href=\"https:\/\/www.winehq.org\/\">WINE<\/a>.\u00a0While it was easy enough to find the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/firefox\/all\/\">download link for Firefox<\/a>, finding a working installation for the Flash plug-in was a bit more difficult.\u00a0The\u00a0normal plug-in download page didn&#8217;t work, as the installer was just a placeholder that downloaded the real installer, which it was unable to do under WINE. I managed to find <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adobe.com\/products\/flashplayer\/distribution3.html\">a page with an off-line installer<\/a>, a page that started with a big warning that it is going to be taken away next year.<\/p>\n<p>Installing those and launching the\u00a0Windows Firefox, I am able to play videos again. There are a few issues, the audio is not 100 % synchronized with the audio, but it at least is better than not playing at all.<\/p>\n<p>I now have a workaround,\u00a0but I still hope they will fix it properly soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, I confess, I am a\u00a0fan of pro wrestling. You know, that weird US-American show-style wrestling where people pretend to beat each other up? Hulk Hogan and Ric Flair? No, okay, then you don&#8217;t need to continue reading. Anyway,\u00a0I am a fan, I even have a website dedicated to it, and I am subscribed to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[8,11,29,30],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","tag-browsers","tag-linux","tag-ott","tag-wwe-network"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.softwolves.com\/wolfblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.softwolves.com\/wolfblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.softwolves.com\/wolfblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.softwolves.com\/wolfblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.softwolves.com\/wolfblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.softwolves.com\/wolfblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49,"href":"https:\/\/www.softwolves.com\/wolfblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions\/49"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.softwolves.com\/wolfblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.softwolves.com\/wolfblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.softwolves.com\/wolfblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}