NetFlix's "Watch It Now" works well in Ubuntu/VirtualBox.

**MetalMusicAddict** · March 9th, 2008

For people outside the states/dont know. NetFlix

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Use THIS guide.

Have a beefy PC as well. Remember, you're running an entire OS virtually.

You will also need to have WMP11 and NetFlix's apps installed. (will prompt you for this.)

Not really and ideal solution but works pretty well. Even works in full-screen. I was thinking it wouldn't work as I haven't had good luck with things using DirectX.

**SegaBoy0** · March 13th, 2008

Just wanted to say thanks for this. I saw it on HackingNetflix.com and I think I might give it a shot.

Hopefully Netflix makes this easier for *nix users in the near future. Or AT LEAST allows Windows users to view movies through Firefox.

**timcredible** · March 13th, 2008

netflix won't even return my emails asking why they don't support linux. if you look at the requirements, they require the drm version of windows, so they'll never make it work for linux. i don't know if macs have drm or not.

bottom line for me - i think they should offer a discount to those not using windows since we can't access the movies online, but , like i say, they won't even send me an email, let alone change their pricing structure.

**Zipster90** · March 13th, 2008

I've had fairly good success streaming movies from Netflix with WinXP running in VMWare. If only I had a better DSL connection...

**Sunflower1970** · March 13th, 2008

Ahh. Thanks for this. Never even occured to me to try out netflix in a Virtual box.

I'd be using it on a Pentium IV 2.2 ghz 1.5 gig ram..Hope that'll be a good enough machine to use this... :unsure:

**MetalMusicAddict** · March 13th, 2008

Originally Posted by timcredible

netflix won't even return my emails asking why they don't support linux.

Firefox is the best we'll get. They're supposed to be working on it.

Originally Posted by Sunflower1970

Ahh. Thanks for this. Never even occured to me to try out netflix in a Virtual box.

I'd be using it on a Pentium IV 2.2 ghz 1.5 gig ram..Hope that'll be a good enough machine to use this... :unsure:

Should be plenty.

I was really shocked this worked because like I said I'm pretty sure it uses DX and I never had much luck with it under visualization.

**SZF2001** · March 13th, 2008

Hey, can't you just use ie4linux (or whatever that was called)? Or maybe IE in Wine? That seems a little too extreme to run an entire other OS virtually just to watch a movie.

Heh... The things people have to do to watch something legitably...

**n3tfury** · March 13th, 2008

dvd's ftw, but nice head's up metal

**jrusso2** · March 13th, 2008

Originally Posted by SZF2001

Hey, can't you just use ie4linux (or whatever that was called)? Or maybe IE in Wine? That seems a little too extreme to run an entire other OS virtually just to watch a movie.

Heh... The things people have to do to watch something legitably...

Netflix requires IE, WMP 11 and active x. Only IE works with WINE

**brice.timmons** · March 15th, 2008

When I try to run the player I get a black screen with no video controls, the title of the movie, and a button that says "back to browsing".

Netflix support said that this happens when there are problems within WMP 11. I have run the Software Development Kit recommended by Netflix and rolled back and reinstalled WMP 11 to no avail.

My machine is a Pentium IV 1.8 MHz with 2 gb of ram, and a 128 mb Radeon video card. The VM is dedicated 1gb of ram, and 64 mb of vram. The VM disk has 3.3gb of space available. I have this problem running in both seamless and windowed mode.

Any ideas?