Attempt to rent online a movie with CanalPlay VOD
- Find a movie and decide to watch it.
21h25
- First failure because Linux is not a supported OS
- Booting Windows XP in a Virtual Machine (vmware)
- Scan of the computer configuration from the CanalPlay website
- Incompatible media player -> Request to update to Windows Media player 11
- 6 clics further on the Microsoft website, before the update can be downloaded, a genuine windows code must be entered.
- The code is given by a application to download and execute on the computer.
- Once the code entered, the download starts (25MB)
- Windows Media player 11 installation
- Goto step 4.
- CanalPlay plugin installation
- Restart the browser
- Goto step 4.
- Windows Media player 11 scan fails again.
- Reboot the computer (well, the VM)
21h36
- During reboot, some system updates are applied.
- The plugin still doesn't work with Firefox
- The scan finally works with IE
- Creating a CanalPlay account
- Wrong country: the movie is not available
- Creating a SSH Socks proxy to a server in France (Thanks OVH)
21h45
- Renting the movie in SD for 48h for 4€ (Yes, I really want to try)
- The payement is rejected because a foreign credit card is used.
- Shutting down the VM
21h48
- Creating a Purevid account
- Monthly subscripion for 4.5€
- Starting the movie in streaming from Linux with Firefox.
21h53