Using Silverlight to watch Netflix on my Hackintosh
As some of you may know, Mac Netflix users can opt-in to finally stream available movies using the Netflix movie player. If you haven’t yet, you can opt-in here:
http://www.netflix.com/silverlightoptin
The player works fine on my MacBook Air and my black MacBook. However, I had some problems getting the Silverlight installer to install on my Hackintosh. For some reason, the Silverlight installer views my Hackintosh as a PowerPC and refuses to proceed with the installation. Clearly, that’s incorrect, as I have an Intel-based processor (Quad Core Q6600). Over on the InsanelyMac forums, user critic81 found a way to bypass the installation check and user TinFoil updated the actual downloadable installer so that Silverlight can install. Unfortunately, the Netflix movie player requires a more recent version of Silverlight. I took the new installation package and modified it with critic81’s InstallationScript.
I uploaded it to rapidshare and you can download it here:
http://rapidshare.com/files/160300227/Silverlight-No_System_Check-UPDATED.zip
The original thread on InsanelyMac with my post is located here.
If you have any questions, post here or on the InsanelyMac forums.
JT said,
December 15, 2008 @ 10:50 pm
Thanks for the package. I got to installed but now encountering DRM error 8152. Have you seen it before?
michael said,
December 16, 2008 @ 7:44 am
@JT: Check here. http://forum.insanelymac.com/lofiversion/index.php/t134517.html