[NBLUG/talk] Streaming Web Sites under Linux

[gandalf at sonic.net]

I'm not really sold on those. I don't see that they can do anything but their pre-programmed "stations". A cheap used laptop can handle anything on the web. We mostly watch Hulu, Youtube TV, the channel streams themselves and Netflix. It's somewhat better if you have a dedicated laptop, but I generally use my laptop in the bedroom and can watch many shows while checking my email, reading manga or otherwise poking around. 

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 On Thu 18/03/10 11:42 AM , Barry Stump barry.stump at gmail.com sent:
> I just use a Roku box for streaming Netflix.  No computer required,
> and the thing only draws 5 watts.
> 
> http://www.roku.com/roku-products
> It's a little embedded linux system, though you can't access the
> internals, as far as I can tell.
> 
> -Barry
> 
> On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 11:37 AM,   ic.net> wrote:> What about netflix? They seem to have a pretty
> nasty implementation. It would probably be a deal breaker for us. I just
> did a little poking around and it doesn't look like there's any real way to
> do unless you run it under a virtual machine.>
> > We ditched cable quite a long time ago. We watch
> most of our TV through an antenna or the internet. Geeze, they're making
> such a big deal about "on demand", we've had that for years. I
> just got an old laptop that might work for a living room box and it's
> windows is wonky, so I was wondering what our options were.>
> > (imagine a cute or dirty tagline
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> >  On Thu 18/03/10 11:06 AM , Mike Rice dolo724 at yah
> oo.com sent:>> I'm using the eLiveCD installation, and all
> the sites seem to work>> fine,except for CW. So the wife is missing
> Smallville. Most of the protocols>> use something flash-based, and even Ubuntu
> runs them after you enable>> the non-free (restricted) options. Also, I
> haven't tried to install the>> Veoh thingy yet.
> >>
> >> As soon as I learned all the above, I
> ditched cable for DSL (saved>> $40/mo). Now I watch all my shows directly
> from the networks. Adverts>> are still a problem, but not so
> bad.>>
> >> oops, i missed the superbowl. oh well. But
> the Ads are Nice!>>
> >> mIke
> >>
> >> p.s. I'm using the built-in Intel 915 video,
> no special cards. Maybe>> theimage would improve if i did something
> about that?>>
> >> On 03/18/2010 10:33 AM, gandalf at son>> ic.net wrote:> First off I have almost no
> experience with>> Desktop Linux although I have a lot of
> experience with command line Linux.>> So I wanted to ask those that do have this
> experience about the current>> state of the art. In particular I wonder
> about television/movie streaming>> sites. Netflix, Hulu, Veoh, NBC, ABC, etc,
> etc, etc. >>> > Do these sites work with current
> technology or>> vice versa? Are there hacks to get around
> issues? What's the scoop.>> >
> >> > (imagine a cute or dirty
> tagline>> here)>
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