[TriLUG] Netflix streaming through guest OS?

Cristóbal Palmer cmp at cmpalmer.org
Wed Oct 7 13:05:12 EDT 2009


On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Brian Cottingham <spiffytech at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have done this with both Windows XP and Windows 7 guests. The playback
> performance is decent with the Netflix player operating inside the browser
> window on my 3-year-old laptop. I expect fullscreen player performance would
> be fine on a more modern machine with a real graphics card and hardware
> virtualization support.
>

Full screen is decent on my Lenovo T400 with with XP guest on Ubuntu
Jaunty host. Not great, but decent and watchable.

Cheers,
-- 
Cristóbal M. Palmer
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