[TriLUG] Netflix streaming through guest OS?

Jon Carnes jonc at nc.rr.com
Thu Oct 8 15:40:44 EDT 2009


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
> >>
> >>
> >> ------------------------------
> >>
> >> 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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