[TriLUG] Netflix streaming through guest OS?

[Greg Brown]

For less than one windows license you could get a $100 roku box.    
Mine has performed flawlessly, well the second one.  Roku #1 lasted  
one movie, but I've forgiven them for that.

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On Oct 7, 2009, at 10:44 PM, John Brier <johnbrier at gmail.com> wrote:

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>> Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 10:21:04 -0400
>> From: Carl Crider <c.crider at gmail.com>
>> Subject: [TriLUG] Netflix streaming through guest OS?
>> To: Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion <trilug at trilug.org>
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>>  Since VirtualBox has been a recent topic, I'm interested if anyone  
>> is
>> using Netflix streaming through a
>> guest (non-Linux) OS? Since the streaming doesn't work with my  
>> current
>> media box, I'm wondering
>> if this is a solution.[?]
>>
>>  If you are doing this, can you please share your machine specs?
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> -Carl
>>
>>
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>> Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:28:21 -0400
>> From: Brian Cottingham <spiffytech at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Netflix streaming through guest OS?
>> To: Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion <trilug at trilug.org>
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>> 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.
>>
>> Dell Insporin e1405
>> Core Duo 1.66 GHz
>> 3GB 533MHz RAM
>>
>> -Brian
>
> I am considering doing something similar. My roommate has a
> subscription to Netflix. He purchased the (windows only) app PlayOn
> (http://www.themediamall.com/playon/) which allows you to stream
> Netflix (also Hulu, CBS, YouTube, CNN, ESPN etc) to Xbox etc. In our
> case we have XBMC installed on the Xbox and it works really well, in
> fact it's a whole lot more usable than Boxee is on my appleTV (which
> is god awful slow).
>
> Previously my roommate has been running PlayOn on his windows laptop
> but we have an always on Debian 5.0 server/gateway which I was
> thinking of running virtualbox on. The hardware is Athlon 64 3200+
> with 1 GB of memory (no AMD-V extensions) so I'm not sure how well it
> will work. The system is basically headless and X less so I was
> thinking of running virtualbox in a vnc session.. is there a way to
> run virtualbox w/o X? It would be nicer I think.
>
> Any other hurdles to overcome with the above? I haven't had the time
> to hook it all up.
>
> John Brier
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