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Netflix Video Not Working in Safari
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It has been working perfectly for me for 2 days. Then I tried just now and it's broken. I go to the video site, select my user profile, click on my show and Safari gives me a black screen. Video never loads at all.
Is this the same thing everyone else is getting?
Is this the same thing everyone else is getting?
Well, for me, when I click on a video it takes you to the player page, which immediately throws up an error like this:
It happened to me the day I installed El Capitan. Glad to finally find some people with the same problem.
Well, I don't get any messages. Just the black screen. I installed Cappy over Yosemite on a spare SSD. I'll try a complete clean install on a blank drive in a few days and see if it give the same problem.
Funny that it worked fine for a couple of days, including after multiple reboots and sleep cycles. Then it suddenly crapped out. I tried changing the user agent and clearing the caches but that had no effect. I even reinstalled and it was no help. I suspect doing a clean install to a blank drive won't be any better. I just can't figure out how come it worked so well for the first couple of days.
Funny that it worked fine for a couple of days, including after multiple reboots and sleep cycles. Then it suddenly crapped out. I tried changing the user agent and clearing the caches but that had no effect. I even reinstalled and it was no help. I suspect doing a clean install to a blank drive won't be any better. I just can't figure out how come it worked so well for the first couple of days.
Correct. Still better than using Chrome which had a really choppy frame rate for some reason.
I don't know if this will help anyone else, but disabling SIP (rootless) allows Neflix to play in Safari on my system again.
Open up a terminal and paste the following in at the CLI
sudo nvram boot-args=”rootless=0″
Next, just reboot and you're done.
Unfortunately I wouldn't expect this to get fixed until Apple does so through an update or Netflix somehow fixes things on their end. Personally I can't stand using Silverlight since it's a CPU killer, so I'll be waiting as patiently as possible.
Good thing I have Plex and tons of movies and tv shows.
Good thing I have Plex and tons of movies and tv shows.
I spoke with Netflix support today, they are aware of the issue and gave me a fix that worked for me:
Quit Safari, then look in ~/Library/Safari/Databases, there is a folder called __indexedDB. I deleted the entire folder but you could go in and delete only Netflix entries. Restart Safari, Netflix should now work fine.
Hope that helps someone.
Quit Safari, then look in ~/Library/Safari/Databases, there is a folder called __indexedDB. I deleted the entire folder but you could go in and delete only Netflix entries. Restart Safari, Netflix should now work fine.
Hope that helps someone.
Netflix is working fine on my system after turning off SIP. That said, I went into the referenced folder and found no entries for Netflix.
Since Netflix worked perfectly after my initial install, then suddenly stopped after a couple of days, I'm expecting it to break again. When it does, I'll revisit this thread and apply the fix you outlined and see what happens.
You should tell people to reboot in recovery partition to use its security utility to disable SIP.
boot-args is going to be removed fairly soon from El Cap as you cannot issue anymore nvram changes while SIP is running.