hotstar-linux

A simple Google Chromium extension to play hotstar videos on your Linux machine, which is not supported by Hotstar yet! Hotstar has updated their APIs and sweta20's extension stopped working.

Many people have faced the problem of streaming hotstar videos on linux. It is a simple plugin when added to browser helps resolve the issue. Refer: http://askubuntu.com/questions/778906/problem-playing-hotstar-videos

How to install?

1. Download the repository as zip or clone the code.
2. Visit chrome://extensions (via omnibox or menu -> Tools -> Extensions).
3. Enable Developer mode by ticking the checkbox in the upper-right corner.
4. Click on the "Load unpacked extension..." button.
5. Select the directory containing your unpacked extension/cloned files+.

How to use:

1. Open the link of the hotstar video you want to watch (You will see the video player loader rotates for ever!).
2. Now click on the icon in the extensions block.
3. The website https://www.hlsplayer.net will be opened in a new tab.

Flash is needed? How to install flash on my apt?

1. Open /etc/apt/sources.list and add

deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu yakkety partner

to end of file. If following lines are commented, uncomment both. 1.1 Ubuntu < 16.04

deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu trusty partner
deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu trusty partner

1.2 In Ubuntu 16.04

deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu xenial partner
deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu xenial partner

3. and run

sudo apt update

4. Finally, run

sudo apt install adobe-flashplugin