Netflix

[abg218]

Hey, I've been using Netflix for a while and just came over to linux to find out that unless you're using windows or a mac, you cannot stream movies from netflix to watch them instantly. Is there any way around this?

[revdjenk]

abg218,

I am not aware of any work-arounds. Have you contacted Netflix with a request to include a Linux option? Every contact like that just might help.

God Bless
Doug

[AK Dave]

Ever considered using IE6 in Wine to connect to Netflix? That might work. Or you might run Virtualbox, run XP in Virtualbox, run a web browser in IE, and see if that works.

Netflix does not support linux. You could try writing a nicely formatted email to Netflix.

[AndrewH]

I sent them an email requesting they consider supporting Linux. Or consider making their browser application platform independent, like the rest of the Web 2.0 apps.

[DrHu]

Its exasperating all right, even Apple users have or had similar problems with Netflix
--nary a software solution in site

hardware based..
http://www.linux.com/archive/feature/142729
http://blog.netflix.com/2008/10/new-con ... antly.html

Software..VM
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=143163

Microsoft silverlight (Sl1 vs SL2) which they have for Linux also does not support Netflix, due to the DRM locks they apply
--it's also a mono framework application, if you wanted all that bloat

[AK Dave]

Ironically, Netflix does work on Linux. Just not the desktop linux you're using.

Those Netflix boxes that some people hook up to stream movies? Yeah, those run linux.