[TriLUG] Netflix streaming through guest OS?

[Jason Herr]

Is it open/hackable?

J


Jon Carnes wrote:
> Roku ++1
> 
> I've pretty much stopped watching live TV.
> 
> Jon Carnes
> FeatureTel.com
> 
> On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 08:38 -0400, Greg Brown wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On Oct 7, 2009, at 10:44 PM, John Brier <johnbrier at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>> Message: 1
>>>> 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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>>>>
>>>> Message: 2
>>>> 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>
>>>> Message-ID: <4ACCA585.4070900 at gmail.com>
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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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