I love Boxee, I also love Netflix and unfortunately it doesn't work with
Linux. Netflix uses Siverlight and have a DRM stack which prevents
movies from working on Linux. Hopefully Boxee will ad Amazon Video on
Demand. <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Mark Wright <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:m.perry.wright@gmail.com">m.perry.wright@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div style="word-wrap: break-word;">Boxee seems to be a good choice. I was looking at their site and they will give you Linux Boxee software for free! What's not to love!<div><br></div><div>I probably ought to get around to ripping all my DVDs and serving them locally. That way I can put the originals and boxes out of the way of the grand babies! </div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks...</div><div><div class="im"><br><div> <span style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><div>
Mark Wright</div><div><a href="mailto:m.perry.wright@gmail.com" target="_blank">m.perry.wright@gmail.com</a></div><div><br></div></span><br> </div><br></div><div><div></div><div class="h5"><div><div>On Nov 30, 2010, at 3:02 PM, Preston Boyington wrote:</div>
<br><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin: 0px;">Greg Clifton wrote:</div> <blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin: 0px;">Anybody try any of these three: <a href="http://playon.tv" target="_blank">playon.tv</a> <<a href="http://playon.tv" target="_blank">http://playon.tv</a>>? Linux MCE<span> </span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px;">edition? XBMC?</div> </blockquote><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;">I use XBMC for my music and movies (I rip all my DVDs to mkv).<span> </span>For<span> </span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px;">things like Netflix you will want Boxee.<span> </span>XBMC seems to work best for<span> </span></div><div style="margin: 0px;">local media.</div><div style="margin: 0px;">_______________________________________________</div>
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