Netflix in Linux

[LunaticHiatus]

I heard that netflix either supports or might support linux and firwfox. Can I watch my instant movies now? How do I go about doing this?

[LunaticHiatus]

I heard that perhaps moonlight would allow you to run it?

[wolfen69]

netflix is not currently available for linux.

[Coreigh]

I may be totally wrong here but what about installing the Windows version of Firefox in Wine and then the required plugins? And running the player in Wine. I know this works for other Windows only plugins.

[LunaticHiatus]

I believe netflix uses silverlight, I heard that novel has released moonlight with source to run netflix but thats all I heard, I don't know if its slow, buggy, supports drm, etc. etc. I'm completely clueless. I also read they where support firefox for netflix (before, you where forced to run ie) A while ago I tried running internet explorer for linux and watch movies in netflix but it still wouldn't run (it said it didn't support os/x at the time as well)

[LunaticHiatus]

http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS9198444724.html

[oldrocker99]

I just did a little Googling, and Novell makes a Firefox plugin called Moonlight, which handles DRM streaming files. This might be the solution, but I need to do a little testing.

Here's the link:

http://www.go-mono.com/moonlight/

[directhex]

No.

Moonlight currently only supports Silverlight 1.0

Netflix uses Silverlight 2.0.

[oldrocker99]

Well, Netflix didn't like it...

Prejudice against non-******* OSes...

Bah.

[Old *ix Geek]

Stepping on my soapbox here for a minute: COMPLAIN TO NETFLIX. If they don't KNOW that there are Linux users out here who want to use their service, but can't because of their STUPID choice to only support M$ users, things will never change.