On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 02:44:05PM -0800, Ryan Freeman wrote: > On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 01:24:09PM -0600, Chris Bennett wrote: > > One of the stumbling blocks I now have with getting people to try > > OpenBSD is that it doesn't support Netflix streaming movies. Right? > > > > What's the situation with that? It does or what needs to be done for > > that to work? > > the only silverlight solution outside of direct microsoft is the > moonlight project: http://www.go-mono.com/moonlight/ > > i have no idea how hard it would be to get that to work here, and > a quick read of the page reports that it still requires downloads > from microsoft anyhow; the first page you visit with a silverlight > object, the moonlight software reportedly downloads required codecs > from microsoft. > > to porters: would allowing a package that does this be theoretically > possible like the microsoft mstcorefonts package? or is that just > because mstcorefonts is available on sourceforge. > > -ryan
Without DRM support Moonlight is useless for Netflix. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
