[NBLUG/talk] Streaming Web Sites under Linux

Jippen cheetahmorph at gmail.com
Sun Mar 21 12:18:33 PDT 2010


My current home setup is an HTPC loaded with videos, and using boxee
to stream lots of online video, except from netflix. That just does
not work on Linux, and there are no current hacks aside from running a
VM. (Wine, for example, is not enough)

For netflix, I have an xbox 360, but if the computer is powerful
enough to handle the netflix VM, its a useable solution (shame it
still requires a windows licence, though)

On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 1:44 PM,  <gandalf at sonic.net> wrote:
> Hehe, reminds me of when I 'fixed' my great aunts computer. Hadn't worked right since she vacuumed.
>
> (imagine a cute or dirty tagline here)
>
>  On Thu 18/03/10  1:20 PM , Troy Arnold troy at zenux.net sent:
>> >  On Thu 18/03/10 11:42 AM , Barry Stump barry.s
>> tump 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.
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 12:11:20PM -0700, gandalf at son
>> ic.net wrote:> 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.
>>
>> For < $100 those little roku boxes are pretty neat. They're small,
>> quietand efficient and they'll stream netflix, which you can't do on your
>> ownunder Linux.  And I can send one to my mom 4,000 miles away and she can
>> setit up on her own.  That's no mean feat.  I once "fixed" my mom's
>> Internetby swapping an ethernet cable for the single pair-phone cable she had
>> beenusing.
>>
>> -t
>>
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