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    Linux guru,s

    I,ve got Mint installed on a laptop and love it.
    BUT, i cant watch foxtel on it,although I can when I switch over to windoze(separate ssd on laptop)
    I,ve read that you can now get M/soft edge on linux so I downloaded the program and edge works,but when I,ve logged into foxtel it still wont load the app
    to watch it.
    Does anyone know how I can watch foxtel on a mint laptop whilst I,m cooking. TV wont fit where I have got the laptop and I dont wont another tv anyway.

    Any guidance would be greatly appreciated.

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    Quote Originally Posted by disco gazza View Post
    I,ve read that you can now get M/soft edge on linux so I downloaded the program and edge works,but when I,ve logged into foxtel it still wont load the app
    to watch it.
    No. It's to do with not having a "secure" channel between the browser and the screen because Linux doesn't subscribe to the theory that you let someone else tell you what you can and can't do.

    I did get Foxtel in a Windows 8.1 VM on Linux, but that was just a perversity of nature.

    Same as I can watch Foxtel on my iPad but I can't push it out the HDMI dongle. I can't watch it on an external display on my Wifes Macbook Air using Safari, but I can using Chrome. On my Macbook Pro I can push it anywhere using anything.

    I just boot into MacOS when I want to watch Foxtel and accept they're a shower of bastards. Seriously, as soon as I can get unrestricted real-time access to F1 and MotoGP reliably elsewhere I'll be giving them the flick.

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    Foxtel just reads the headers that identify the browser and refuse any browsers they decide are unsupported. To get around this, there's plugins/ extensions that can send a different browser identification.

    Search for "user-agent switcher" in extensions.

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    I think you've run into the DRM roadblock....

    In your browser settings enable DRM. You may need to install a DRM plugin or extension.

    It took me ages but I have Foxtel and NEtflix working with Raspberry Pi OS with both Chomium browser and Firefox-ESR. I needed to mess about almost endlessly to get it working though.
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    If it is a DRM thing look into widevine. Kodi media player may be able to do Foxtel too.
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    I've run Foxtel Go quite happily on Firefox browser inside Mint OS in the past using a user agent switching extension. Things may have changed in recent times, but it ran without issues a year or so back.

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    As indicated above, it will be a DRM issue, and probably is the browser rather than the OS.

    It is possible to install Chrome on Mint, and this is likely to solve the problem, but settings and plugins in Firefox might work. (Not an issue for me - being on satellite NBN, I don't have enough data to even seriously consider streaming services!)
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    Thanks everyone for their responses.
    I,m relatively new to operating the linux system,but am learning new things each and every day.
    Seeing as windoze 11 is becoming more of a hindrance than a simple download and play system,I have finally
    decided to get a linux system up and running so I dont have to deal with windoze anymore(plus the fact that support will
    end in a few years time eg win 10, that I run on both of my laptops.Have stopped the update to 11 on the newer one.)

    cheers
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    for those looking for an easy linux distribution to ease their way into the linux world

    Zorin is a great way to do it...

    Zorin OS - Make your computer better.

    there are free versions and a paid version that makes a few things even easier and helps support them...
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