February 7, 20224 yr Kanopy.com is a website that has many classic movies available to stream (ie: Seven Samurai, Rashamon, Citizen Kane, 8 1/2), for free is you have a public library card at qualifying libraries. But it requires an OS newer than WinXP, and every time I try to play a video I get a DRM error, There's a help chart that shows it's only supported on WIndows 8 and above, using Firefox 47 and later. I use Firefox 52.9 ESR. Has anyone found a way to get Kanopy to work with WinXP? Edited February 7, 20224 yr by jbclem
February 7, 20224 yr You should be able to spoof the browser changing the useragent. You can search other user agent strings or modify your one's. It could be solved if you replace NT 5.1 with NT 6.3 or NT 10.0. So websites would believe that you use Win8.1/10
March 19, 20224 yr Author I've spoofed the useragent and it shows me as Firefox 77 and Windows 10. That's apparently not enough to fool the Kanopy website. Are there other ways to do this? Sorry for the delay in answering your message, this website didn't notify me.
March 19, 20224 yr 1 hour ago, jbclem said: Sorry for the delay in answering your message, this website didn't notify me. I think you have to follow the thread, otherwise you only get a notification when someone quotes or mentions you. On topic, modern DRM doesn't work on XP, in this case Widevine CDM specifically. The information on that site is outdated, it doesn't work on newer OS with older browsers such as Firefox 47 neither. You need both the browser that supports current Widevine version and an OS that can support both the browser and the Widevine - that's an additional executable plugged into the browser. Edited March 19, 20224 yr by UCyborg
March 30, 20224 yr Author I've never heard of Kafan Minibrowser, I'll give it a try. Ditto 360 Chrome Explorer. Thanks for mentioning them. I have Chrome 43 but can't get most websites to work, always getting error messages like : This site can’t provide a secure connection mybrowseraddon.com uses an unsupported protocol. ERR_SSL_VERSION_OR_CIPHER_MISMATCH
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