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coldfusion1313
January 19th, 2010, 03:57 AM
Does anyone esle think that netflix should work on linux?
00ber n00b
January 19th, 2010, 04:01 AM
uhmmm...in short...Hell yeah!
user1397
January 19th, 2010, 05:19 AM
Yup, that would be awesome.
samh785
January 19th, 2010, 05:31 AM
Does anyone esle think that netflix should work on linux?
everything should work on linux.

except for viruses. and IE.
coldfusion1313
January 19th, 2010, 05:52 AM
everything should work on linux.

except for viruses. and IE.

nice
mamamia88
January 19th, 2010, 05:55 AM
absolutely everything on the web should be cross platform period.
coldfusion1313
January 19th, 2010, 05:56 AM
esp games, when AAA tiltes become cross platform that is when linux will take off.
yester64
January 19th, 2010, 06:04 AM
How can you tell netflix to offer it? Is there not this silverlight project called moonlight going on? So that their DRM is implemented.
TheNosh
January 19th, 2010, 06:14 AM
it's simple business. to put is a tad harshly, in the eyes of companies trying to reach large numbers of people, linux users don't matter. it's not some grave injustice that netflix won't work on linux, it's just the fact that there primary goal is to make money.
phrostbyte
January 19th, 2010, 06:18 AM
How can you tell netflix to offer it? Is there not this silverlight project called moonlight going on? So that their DRM is implemented.

Moonlight does not support Netflix's digital restriction management scheme. It might be worth reasoning with the MPAA that DRM is pointless when BitTorrent has many thousands (or even millions?) of DRM free movies anyway. But I doubt they'd even listen.
Ric_NYC
January 19th, 2010, 06:27 AM
I did a quick online search:

Blockbuster ONDEMAND = Windows Only

Amazon Video On Demand = Windows Only.



:(
toupeiro
January 19th, 2010, 08:05 AM
yeah, this truly does suck. On the other hand, Neflix on demand will support the Wii this spring!

/win
yester64
January 19th, 2010, 10:04 PM
Here is a post i found on http://go-mono.com/forums/



HOW TO PLAY NETFIX WITH LINUX AND FIREFOX?
1. IF you don't have Firefox get it now
2. get the moonlight 2.0 plug-in for Firefox
3. Install the Microsoft Codec Pack (little tricky) - http://tinyurl.com/n9k223 **ONLY if you not on Linux mint or just don't have it.**
4. Install user agent switcher for firefox - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/59
5.Added the following user agent to make websites think I am using Mac OS/X Intel (to get netflix to ignore the fact that I don't have active x):
useragent description="FireFox 3.5.0.0 (Mac OSX)" useragent="Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2" appcodename="" appname="" appversion="" platform="" vendor="" vendorsub=""
6. Make the user agent you just added default.

You should now have Netlix all most working. go to netlix.com, play a movie, and netlix will load the movie up but will not play, after load all you get is " This Silverlight applcation is using DRM-protected content, which Moonlight does not support"
http://old.nabble.com/file/p26978904/Screenshot.pngNetfix on ML2.0, Linux mint 5LTS, Firefox 3.0.15

Note: we don't even need SL/ML 3.0 support, we just need DRM support. Netfix WILL run if you just add DRM support!
Note 2: There is no bypass/hack for DRM on Netifx. Don't even ask, a bypass/hack will not happen.

SO DRM is all I need, so how do I get DRM?
1. Get EVERYONE you know to post on this forum asking for DRM moonlight.
2. Wait for DRM mooonlight.
3. The second DRM moonlight is out, update to it.
4. Netfix will now be working on you Linux computer. It does indeed work, just does not plat DRM content so far. But its a right step in the right directions.
Anyone tried this too? In my case it did not ask me for codecs.
LowSky
January 19th, 2010, 10:18 PM
Can I just say as someone who has Netflix, the online offerings are not that great.

and.. Technically speaking Netflix already works on Linux powered devices
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roku

Oddly Hulu which has supported Linux stopped working on 64Bit Linux as of about 2 weeks ago, No idea why?
yester64
January 19th, 2010, 11:12 PM
Can I just say as someone who has Netflix, the online offerings are not that great.

and.. Technically speaking Netflix already works on Linux powered devices
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roku

Oddly Hulu which has supported Linux stopped working on 64Bit Linux as of about 2 weeks ago, No idea why?

True, true. But Netflix gives me all the old stuff i really like. Plus i stream it from my xbox to my tv. So its great.
I just wish i could also watch on the pc sometimes.
Roku was my first choice but since i got a console it got killed. aehm