[ale] Netflix on Linux

[Richard Faulkner]

Yes, thank you for the concern on being OT but so far I think we're
spot-on!  Any issue
that relates to being able to get it to work is relevant in my sight --
and helps answer the
question that I first posed.  

I will grant you, though, there has been hi-jacked/OT stuff that I'd
rather seen marked as
such for purposes of filtering.  Most often I prefer not to get into the
OT stuff...but that's
just me...

Still open ears on this topic though...

I had been thinking of trying this via KVM/Redhat or Ubuntu...I've got
nothing more than
a server to work with an bits-n-pieces to build it.  I'm really short on
time lately but getting 
closer to actually building a working test-bed.  


-----Original Message-----
From: William Fragakis <william at fragakis.com>
Reply-to: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
Subject: Re: [ale] Netflix on Linux
Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2010 09:24:32 -0500


Note that the op specifically mentioned the possibility of using a vm.
Fix the sound issue on the vm and we possibly have a way to run netflix
on a linux host.

Thank you for your concern, however.

Regards,
William

On Tue, 2010-12-07 at 00:47 -0500, Richard Bronosky wrote:
> This is called thread hi-jacking. Please change the subject of the
> email when you change... the... you know.
> 
> On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 11:55 PM, William Fragakis <william at fragakis.com> wrote:
> > Inspired by this, I installed Silverlight on one of my XP kvm guests. I
> > had no idea that sound was so broken in Fedora/kvm. Had I known that, it
> > would have saved me hours of grief when I couldn't get sound to work in
> > an OSX86* guest despite faithfully following instructions in several
> > locations. In both OSX and XP, the vm sees the hardware but sound system
> > prefs/control panels don't show a device to control.
> >
> > I found some of the work arounds but, if I read them correctly, require
> > you to start vms from the CLI which takes some of the fun out of
> > virt-manager and some ownership changes that I'm not completely
> > comprehending. I've been using a gui for 23 years and some stuff is
> > easier with a mouse - for me.
> >
> > If anyone has found easy ways or can explain a bit better on how to get
> > sound working in Fedora/kvm/virt-manager or could suggest another distro
> > to play with, I'm all ears/eyes.
> >
> > thanks,
> > William
> >
> > *Leopard works well with some network/irq hacks. Snow Leo has the awful
> > 8139 issue which the 10.5 hacks didn't help and network speed is
> > dialup-esuqe. All on an AMD host.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, 2010-12-06 at 14:13 -0500, Richard Faulkner wrote:
> >> Happy Holidays all.....
> >>
> >> I'm curious to know if any of you who do Netflix and stream most of
> >> your content have found a work-around for the M$/Silverlight
> >> requirement.  I know that Netflix requires Mac or Microsoft and
> >> doesn't like Chrome in the least little bit.  I've been wondering if
> >> Netflix could be spoofed into running on a virtual machine.
> >>
> >> Since we've moved from Internet facing machines running Windows to
> >> Fedora and Ubuntu we're "fat-n-happy" but we do want to stream Netflix
> >> but don't want Internet facing systems running M$.  Right now that
> >> sticks us with watching Netflix only on our one XP laptop or on our
> >> Blue-Ray player.  My last call to Netflix tech support ended with them
> >> saying to install O$ X or Window$.  : (
> >>
> >> I'm sorry Dave...I'm afraid I can't do that...
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