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elsphinc Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 24 Oct 2002 Posts: 139 Location: Lake Tahoe
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Posted: Tue May 08, 2007 7:06 am Post subject: Netflix |
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so where are we at status wise with a hack for watching netflix movies in firefox. Hopefully not IE through crossover. _________________ elsphinc # kickin_ass &
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robselina Apprentice
Joined: 05 Feb 2006 Posts: 165 Location: Socorro, NM, USA
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Posted: Wed May 16, 2007 10:58 pm Post subject: |
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bump. Also interested in this! _________________ -- Rob |
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elsphinc Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 24 Oct 2002 Posts: 139 Location: Lake Tahoe
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Posted: Thu May 24, 2007 7:24 am Post subject: |
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got the standard "alternative platforms support coming" response from netflix.
just an update _________________ elsphinc # kickin_ass &
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Slurp53 Apprentice
Joined: 14 Jun 2002 Posts: 255 Location: Iowa
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Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2007 9:41 pm Post subject: |
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My solution was to install XP in VMware. Seems to work OK if you don't try and watch the picture too large. VMware's video isn't the fastest so I throttle my firewall back so when netfilx detects my connection speed it shows up as "basic". Then netflix sends a lower bitrate stream and VMware can keep up, otherwise the picture is a little choppy. Still working on the perfect settings. It's a very hacked up way of doing it, but it beats wasting a partition on windoze. Also, I tried the same thing with qemu. It works, but the movie is very choppy. The video is just to slow in qemu.
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elsphinc Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 24 Oct 2002 Posts: 139 Location: Lake Tahoe
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Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 6:21 am Post subject: |
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thanks, maybe i'll wait a while. emulation's usually a pain. thanks tho. _________________ elsphinc # kickin_ass &
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robselina Apprentice
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elsphinc Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 24 Oct 2002 Posts: 139 Location: Lake Tahoe
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Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 6:19 pm Post subject: any more news on this |
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hey its been a while and a lot of people have looked at this thread. Any other feedback. _________________ elsphinc # kickin_ass &
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jhr0771 Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 10 Jul 2003 Posts: 90
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Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 7:55 pm Post subject: |
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Any updates on this. I will really like to see some movies in my PC. I already sent an email to netflix asking for support for linux. |
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jstead1 Guru
Joined: 01 Aug 2003 Posts: 427 Location: Oswego, NY where the snow is deep
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Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 4:01 am Post subject: |
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I wouldn't hold my breath.
I would guess netflix is all tied up in proprietary MS crap.
I don't think it even works in firefox on an MS OS.
You need to run internet exploder err explorer to watch netflix.
Very sad.
Sometimes it seems like they just want you to go to the pirates bay.
aaarrrhhh me heartys! _________________ jim |
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Moji Tux's lil' helper
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jstead1 Guru
Joined: 01 Aug 2003 Posts: 427 Location: Oswego, NY where the snow is deep
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Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 2:22 am Post subject: |
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looks like the greasemonkey script still requires windows to remove the drm once you've downloaded it. oh well, I have a laptop with XP that I use to watch netflix.
It's a pretty nice deal, even though the online stuff is limited, it fills in when you are too lazy to mail your movies back after you're done watching
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cappaberra Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 24 Aug 2003 Posts: 77 Location: California, USA
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sageman Guru
Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 363 Location: New Hampshire
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Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2008 6:24 pm Post subject: |
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For the record, you can also use the IE Tab extension in FF to embed IE in a tab, which works great for Instant Watching on Netflix, albeit, on a Windows box. _________________ Carlton Stedman
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cappaberra Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 24 Aug 2003 Posts: 77 Location: California, USA
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Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2008 6:28 pm Post subject: |
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sageman wrote: | For the record, you can also use the IE Tab extension in FF to embed IE in a tab, which works great for Instant Watching on Netflix, albeit, on a Windows box. |
True, although now Netflix natively supports Firefox with the new movie player.
-cappaberra |
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audiodef Watchman
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muebi Guru
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Posted: Sat Nov 21, 2009 4:27 am Post subject: |
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anything new regarding how to watch netflix movies with linux and firefox? |
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dacid n00b
Joined: 29 May 2004 Posts: 49 Location: Charlotte, NC, USA
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dacid n00b
Joined: 29 May 2004 Posts: 49 Location: Charlotte, NC, USA
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Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2012 11:41 pm Post subject: |
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Well, I followed the instructions on the site, but it's not working for me. I can get to netflix and it starts to initialize, then I get error N8156 6022 which appears to be some sort of silverlight issue.
http://support.netflix.com/en/node/202 |
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Dark_light n00b
Joined: 05 Dec 2012 Posts: 3
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Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2012 4:14 pm Post subject: |
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I've had succes using the patch for wine used in the aur package for archlinux, here's the link to the package https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/wi/wine-silverlight/wine-silverlight.tar.gz . Inside you'll find a single patch that has to be applied (just put it in /etc/portage/patches/app-emulation/wine) and be sure to emerge wine 1.5.18 . After doing that install firefox 16 and Silverlight 4, you'll also need winetricks to install the microsoft fonts required by the netflix player (to avoid error 1001), just do winetricks allfonts.
Remember that the patch breaks wine compatibility with a lot of other software.
Hope this helps |
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dacid n00b
Joined: 29 May 2004 Posts: 49 Location: Charlotte, NC, USA
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Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2012 10:24 pm Post subject: |
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Got it working with that approach
The plugin loaded, and I heard audio, but instead of video I got some static garbled graphics. Once I switched from nvidia to x11 (eselect opengl set x11) the video worked too.
Thanks
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gerard27 Advocate
Joined: 04 Jan 2004 Posts: 2377 Location: Netherlands
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Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2012 5:42 pm Post subject: |
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I wasn't able to watch Dutch TV with Firefox either.
They also wanted the Silverlight plugin.
So I tried to find moonlight and finally found a link.
I downloaded from this link and it works like a charm.
http://www.go-mono.com/moonlight/
No need for Wine or anything else.
Gerard. _________________ To install Gentoo I use sysrescuecd.Based on Gentoo,has firefox to browse Gentoo docs and mc to browse (and edit) files.
The same disk can be used for 32 and 64 bit installs.
You can follow the Handbook verbatim.
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wlchase Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 04 Jul 2003 Posts: 81 Location: Texas
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Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2013 4:11 pm Post subject: |
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gerard82 wrote: | I wasn't able to watch Dutch TV with Firefox either.
They also wanted the Silverlight plugin.
So I tried to find moonlight and finally found a link.
I downloaded from this link and it works like a charm.
http://www.go-mono.com/moonlight/
No need for Wine or anything else.
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PMJI, but is there a plug-in other than moonlight required?
TIA!
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djdunn l33t
Joined: 26 Dec 2004 Posts: 810
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Posted: Thu Mar 07, 2013 7:46 pm Post subject: |
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Why not grab the android developer kit and try running the android emulator and see how the netflix app runs _________________ “Music is a moral law. It gives a soul to the Universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, gaiety and life to everything. It is the essence of order, and leads to all that is good and just and beautiful.”
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cctsurf Tux's lil' helper
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