05-23-2017, 10:16 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-21-2018, 12:41 PM by knuxyl. Edited 25 times in total.)
Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Hulu on the Tinker Board
Chromium 67.0.3396.87 (Developer Build)
Debian Stretch 9.0 (2.0.7)
This package will automatically install the needed libraries for online video playback on Chromium.
NOTICE
It appears that the latest chromium package provided by the repositories somehow broke this package. You can find instructions on ways around this in Pages 7+ on this thread. Thanks to everyone providing this information. I will get around to putting together the fix soon and providing up to date links. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Download
(latest 7/2/18)
Directions
1) Download the archive above (tinker.zip)
2) Extract it
3) Open a terminal and cd to the directory
4) Type this command
2) Extract it
3) Open a terminal and cd to the directory
4) Type this command
Code:
sudo chmod 775 * && sudo chmod +x install.sh
5) Then type this command
Code:
sudo ./install.sh
6) To use, you must either use the launcher that was installed in the Internet category on your menu (Chromium Web Browser (User)), or through terminal with the following command
Code:
chromium --user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 (X11; CrOS armv7l 6946.63.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/67.0.3396.87 Safari/537.36"
Bugs
1) Settings/Extensions menus do not work. You can use your original shortcut to access these and the settings will save for the custom shortcut as well.
2) Performing a "sudo apt-get dist-upgrade" will break this, along with many many other programs. dist-upgrade installs a generic base for debian on arm whereas we need the custom tailored one from ASUS. Not necessarily a bug but I have seen some people do this without knowing. "sudo apt-get upgrade" is fine, but you might need to be reinstall this if chromium is upgrade, although you shouldn't have to.
Help
Here is a video uploaded by ETA PRIME to help users still needing help on installing this.
(Please note that the typo he mentions in the video has been fixed in the last 2 releases, only download you need is from this post)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7sXqqf3oGM
Changelog
Files taken from chromeos_9460.60.0_veyron-speedy_recovery_stable-channel_speedy-mp-v3.bin
(7/2/18) - Updated package to latest libraries and tested on latest TinkerOS. (thanks to SurferTim for info about the user agent string trick)
(7/2/18) - Added a test package from latest C201PA chromeos. Have not tested.
(12/14/17) - Added chromium-widevine package for use with latest ASUS operating system.
(7/16/17) - Updated libraries to the latest available and tested on latest release of Debian from Asus with newer Chromium. Using Asus C201PA libraries (libwidevinecdm.so, libwidevinecdmadapter.so, lilpepflashplayer.so).
(6/7/17) - Test package tested, was not better in performance, possibly worse.
(6/6/17) - Added an updated package that needs testing. It has the latest available libraries
(6/6/17) - Removed 7zip requirement, fixed typos, added a README