On 11/20/2012 11:13 AM, Mark Allums wrote:
Hi Guys,
Last month I signed a netflix account just to be amazed it did not
work nor give support to linux.
It requires Silverlight, which Microsoft never ported to Linux. Silverlight
requires Dot Net, and while Mono works really well, it can't (yet), as far as I
know, support Silverlight, even under Wine. There is a project called
Moonlight that was trying to create a Mono and Linux counterpart, but I think
it has stalled. Microsoft is deemphasizing Silverlight in favor of HTML 5 and
Javascript, so a lot of the motivation for it is gone. Anyway, Moonlight can't
run Netflix.
After calling the call center and get the news, I just canceled it,
very frustrated.
Today, a friend sent me this link:
http://www.iheartubuntu.com/2012/11/netflix-on-ubuntu-is-here.html
Anyone knows about this? Anyone tried it on debian somehow? Is it
possible? Any thoughts?
Thanks!
Beco
It works. I have done so. However, It was not ideal. Installing Silverlight
in Wine was painful, and Firefox runs not well for me under Wine. Javascript,
in particular, is very slow, and requires much patience. Other than Netflix, I
can't think of a good reason to ever want to use it instead of native
iceweasel. I'm sure that it will run in Virtualbox, but who wants to install
Windows on their Linux box?
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I've been using my dual boot laptop for Netfix for some time and am not
completely satisfied with the results. My suggestion is to buy a Visio
Blue Ray player that has a builtin receiver for netflx and several other
sources for about $150. I think you will need a wifi connection to make
it work.
Gary R.
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