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As of today, with the following program and wine one can watch sone Japanese TV programs on Linux. Thanks for the hints, Pierre and Cameron!

This relates to newer NijiTV versions, at the time of writing 2.1.6 .

# install Wine
yum install -y wine

# download nijitv
http://www.myniji.tv/
# On the same website you have to create a user account.
# The credentials have to be used later.

# install the application with wine, use the suggested pathes
wine Downloads/NijiShow_2.1.6_SETUP.exe

# launch nivi
cd ~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)
wine niji/NIJI.exe 

# now, above command enables me to get the programs streamed,
# but instead of a video I get a black screen here in the
# thinkpad x230 with i915 driver.  For me, this works:
LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1 wine niji/NIJI.exe

Tried on Fedora21 AMD64. This required 2 programs to be fetched and files to be overwritten.

# install Wine
yum install -y wine

# download nijitv
http://www.myniji.tv/
# On the same website you have to create a user account.
# The credentials have to be used later.

# download BETV china from here
http://www.appnnn.com/topic/app_88.html

# install both applications with wine, use the suggested pathes
wine Downloads/betv_3.2.8_setup.exe
wine Downloads/NijiShow_2.0.8_SETUP.exe

# some files coming in the niji install do not work,
# one needs to copy the same file coming from the chinese
# tv program to the jihi one: (All ppp.* file)

user@host:~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)$ pwd
/home/user/.wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)
user@host:~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)$ find . |grep ppp
./niji/ppp.conf
./niji/ppp_codec.exe
./niji/ppp_release.exe
./BETV/ppp.conf
./BETV/ppp_codec.exe
./BETV/ppp_release.exe
user@host:~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)$ cp BETV/ppp* niji/

# launch nivi
wine niji/NIJI.exe 

# now, above command enables me to get the programs streamed,
# but instead of a video I get a black screen here in the
# thinkpad x230 with i915 driver.  For me, this works:
LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1 wine niji/NIJI.exe

# install Wine
apt-get install wine winetricks
# install wininet within the wine environnment
winetricks wininet

# download nijitv
http://www.myniji.tv/
# On the same website you have to create a user account.
# The credentials have to be used later.

# download BETV china from here
http://www.appnnn.com/topic/app_88.html

# install both applications with wine, use the suggested pathes
wine Downloads/betv_3.2.8_setup.exe
wine Downloads/NijiShow_2.0.8_SETUP.exe

# some files coming in the niji install do not work,
# one needs to copy the same file coming from the chinese
# tv program to the jihi one: (All ppp.* file)

user@host:~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)$ pwd
/home/user/.wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)
user@host:~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)$ find . |grep ppp
./niji/ppp.conf
./niji/ppp_codec.exe
./niji/ppp_release.exe
./BETV/ppp.conf
./BETV/ppp_codec.exe
./BETV/ppp_release.exe
user@host:~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)$ cp BETV/ppp* niji/

# launch nivi
wine niji/NIJI.exe 

• login credentials are not accepted: Can you login with the credentials at the website?
• My wine installation has no network connectivity: Did you run “winetricks wininet”?
• I have boxes instead of Japanese characters in the application: Verify you have the fonts installed which “winetricks” offers, i.e. “winetricks tahoma”. Does setting environment variables like “export LANG='ja_JP'” help?
• I suddenly get only Chinese and English stations: Download the newest version from http://www.appnnn.com/topic/app_259.html , install it and start NIJI.exe. It seems the internal software update from earlier versions does lead to the Chinese stations. Overwriting files is no longer required.