[GRLUG] Netflix on Linux?

[Steve Romanow]

Oh, your not talking abt the roku.

On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Steve Romanow <slestak989 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sure.  I will look for it and the power transformer.  It has spdif,
> 802.11/g and 10BaseT connections.
>
> On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Casey DuBois <grlugcasey at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Can we test on the music server at the GRLUG social on wednesday?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Casey DuBois
>> 616-808-6942
>>
>> On Oct 21, 2011, at 1:01 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Depends on your needs. For us, it turns out to be a heck of a lot
>>> cheaper than purchasing all the DVDs, both in shelf space and monetary
>>> outlay.
>>>
>>> On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 12:56 PM, Steve Romanow <slestak989 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Is netflix worth all this?
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 12:48 PM, David Wise <davidn.wise at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> I am kind of hoping to avoid running a VM to get it though. I'm really
>>>>> wanting to be able to let my wife just fire it up and watch something while
>>>>> she knits and chats (like she currently does in Windows). Do any of the
>>>>> media players work at all (Boxee etc.)?
>>>>> --
>>>>> Dave
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 12:46 PM, Rob Steenwyk <rsteenwyk at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Good idea, except the Android VM runs terribly slow on x86.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Oct 21, 2011 12:44 PM, "Michael Mol" <mikemol at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 12:38 PM, David Wise <davidn.wise at gmail.com>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>> That stinks. I've read something about ChromeOS having a plugin that
>>>>>>>> supports Netflix, I was wondering if it's possible to use that with
>>>>>>>> Chromium
>>>>>>>> or not. Again, I suspect I know the answer, but am hoping someone will
>>>>>>>> be
>>>>>>>> able to prove me wrong.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Steve's reply just gave me an idea for a really hacky workaround that
>>>>>>> might actually work.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Grab the Android SDK, run Android in a VM, install and use the Netflix
>>>>>>> Android app.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> When you run Android in a VM in the SDK, you're running bona-fide
>>>>>>> Android. So, yeah, it might work. You might need to do some kind of
>>>>>>> workaround for 'device compatibility', especially if you want to fill
>>>>>>> a 720p or 1080p display...
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