Netflix On Ubuntu

[BungaDunga]

I am curious what the performance difference is from using it on Windows -vs- Wine?

I'm running it on an old laptop (Dell d620... Intel GMA 950, yo) and it seems to work okay. I mean, it's a bit unstable, but when it's not crashing (which happens if I interact with a video too much) it seems to keep a good framerate. There's occasionally a quick audio stutter, but it's pretty tiny.

[sdowney717]

They are working on getting silverlight ver 5 to work

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31754

[dniMretsaM]

F11 no longer works.

F11 works fine for me. There is no close button when it's not in full screen, though. There never was for me.

[sdowney717]

F11 works fine for me. There is no close button when it's not in full screen, though. There never was for me.

so much variety of experience with this, I used to have all 3, min max x close

now all I have is x close and it does not close whe clicked which it used to do.

[dniMretsaM]

so much variety of experience with this, I used to have all 3, min max x close

now all I have is x close and it does not close whe clicked which it used to do.

I wonder if that has to do with the fact that you changed the Firefox version.

[Bandit]

Have Ubuntu? Check!
Have netflix that can work on Ubuntu? Check!
Live in a country you can use netflix? Eh?!




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LOL dont feel bad. I am moving to the Philippines in less then two months and no more Hulu or Netflix..

[sdowney717]

Did a test
Created a new user
set desktop to Cinnamon
login
run winecfg
download and install firefox 17
install and run windows firefox17, no netflix working

Then run netflix desktop
config program runs
loads the app netflix works version 14
min-max-close all working fine

Then hit F11, then F10
click help about and update firefox to ver 17
Firefox restarts all working with netflix

Now close netflix app

Click on earlier Windows firefox 17 full install
runs and works on netfilx with a full browser implementation

Nice to see it working.

[lovinglinux]

Netflix on ubuntu runs like a dream, time to delete the windows partition

Exactly what I did 2 days ago.

[lovinglinux]

I am curious what the performance difference is from using it on Windows -vs- Wine?

Performance is great for me. Better than using a VM. However I haven't tested on a dual boot and I deleted the Windows partition 2 days ago.

[sdowney717]

I discovered that if you delete the .netflix-desktop directory, then when you rerun the Netflix Desktop icon, it registers any existing wine Firefox installs so they will then work with netflix.

I actually prefer having netflix running in a tabbed browser window.