Netflix on Linux is now a reality

benjaminkerensa.com

24 points·bkerensa··6 comments

This is a bit premature. The article points out that an announcement may be imminent but doesn't have any actual information on how to run Netflix on Ubuntu.

(But there is a tantalizing screenshot. I do believe it's possible, just not public yet.)

Instructions are here now -http://www.iheartubuntu.com/2012/11/netflix-on-ubuntu-is-her...

I'm not convinced this is that great. I'm happy for it, but it's something that's really only news for those who already use linux as their primary OS. If this was a native solution (a REAL native solution, not a patched, custom-compiled version of WINE), then I'd be converting my television box to ubuntu right now, but it's not. It's still just a hack. Netflix needs to be convinced to stop using windows/osx-only code in their player, so that everyone can use it.

Agreed, this is through wine, but if this is real, it's awesome!

Edit : Actually, it does look real : http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTIyO... Basically, silverlight through a patched version of wine. Good Work!

Groan... all we need is DRM in Silverlight. I hate DRM, but I like Netflix. Why can't we just get M$ to allow their DRM code to run on Linux?? That would solve the problem without all this WINE non-sense.

Compiling. Too excited for this.

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