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netflix , comming soon to a linux near you

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    #62
    human 19
    Registered Users Posts: 838 ✭✭✭human 19


    Johnboy1951 wrote: »
    Try installing the add-on Media Hint to Firefox or Chrome/Chromium.

    Seems to work OK for Netflix, Pandora and Hulu .... at least for the present.

    Have you got Netflix working on Linux? I get the system requirements page when trying to play a movie, as it wont load silverlight (using firefox)


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    #63
    Johnboy1951
    Registered Users Posts: 13,999 ✭✭✭✭Johnboy1951


    human 19 wrote: »
    Have you got Netflix working on Linux? I get the system requirements page when trying to play a movie, as it wont load silverlight (using firefox)

    No I don't ..... only Hulu ... never signed up for Netflix .... so I guess it is Win only for Netflix due to Silverlight? :(


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    #64
    shizz
    Registered Users Posts: 1,506 ✭✭✭shizz


    Install Netflix on linux through a PPA

    Just tried this. WORKED PERFECTLY! It's admittedly a little sluggish with playback but not overly annoying. Give it a go and see what ya think.

    Can't believe something so complicated is no working so well. Not to mention so easy to install. :D


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    #65
    human 19
    Registered Users Posts: 838 ✭✭✭human 19


    shizz wrote: »
    Install Netflix on linux through a PPA

    Just tried this. WORKED PERFECTLY! It's admittedly a little sluggish with playback but not overly annoying. Give it a go and see what ya think.

    Can't believe something so complicated is no working so well. Not to mention so easy to install. :D

    Works well for me too on 24" screen.
    Another step forward for Linux and 1 less reason to use Windows.


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    #66
    bpb101
    Registered Users Posts: 2,827 ✭✭✭bpb101


    3 years later...
    https://insights.ubuntu.com/2014/10/10/watch-netflix-in-ubuntu-today/


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    #67
    PropJoe10
    Registered Users Posts: 5,253 ✭✭✭PropJoe10


    Great news. Works perfectly on Linux Mint 17. No addons required.


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    #68
    humbert
    Registered Users Posts: 5,238 ✭✭✭humbert


    Ditto, working perfectly on Gentoo :)


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    #69
    moc moc a moc
    Registered Users Posts: 1,299 ✭✭✭moc moc a moc


    Fukcing finally. It's a bit embarrassing for Netflix that I have been able to use their product on a 3DS of all things for literally years before they bothered their arses sorting out a native client for one of the most popular desktop operating systems.


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    #70
    azzeretti
    Registered Users Posts: 1,477 ✭✭✭azzeretti


    moc moc a moc wrote: »
    Fukcing finally. It's a bit embarrassing for Netflix that I have been able to use their product on a 3DS of all things for literally years before they bothered their arses sorting out a native client for one of the most popular desktop operating systems.

    I too wonder what the reason behind the delay was. I mean, lots of the small consumer devices running Netflix are running Linux underneath. Politics somewhere delayed it, I feel.
    ....for one of the most popular desktop operating systems

    Sadly this isn't true. Linux on the desktop is in the single figure percentile. I think we've missed the boat too as Chromebooks look set to leapfrog Linux!


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    #71
    niallb
    Registered Users Posts: 2,720 ✭✭✭niallb


    azzeretti wrote: »
    ... Linux on the desktop is in the single figure percentile...

    So is OSX.


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    #72
    bpb101
    Registered Users Posts: 2,827 ✭✭✭bpb101


    azzeretti wrote: »
    Chromebooks look set to leapfrog Linux!
    chromebooks are linux. You can hide it under loads of pretty pictures that run on top. But well, it linux


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    #73
    azzeretti
    Registered Users Posts: 1,477 ✭✭✭azzeretti


    bpb101 wrote: »
    chromebooks are linux. You can hide it under loads of pretty pictures that run on top. But well, it linux

    Yep, although heavily modified. What I was thinking was the average Joe won't ever knew that link. To them it'll be ChromeOS, not linux. Like most Android users don't know the connection either. With that in mind I feel linux might have missed the boat on the desktop, which is a pity. But the desktop is dead now, I suppose!


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    #74
    azzeretti
    Registered Users Posts: 1,477 ✭✭✭azzeretti


    niallb wrote: »
    So is OSX.

    Indeed. I wasn't trying to be snide. It's was more a lamentation!


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    #75
    bpb101
    Registered Users Posts: 2,827 ✭✭✭bpb101


    azzeretti wrote: »
    But the desktop is dead now, I suppose!
    desktops will always still be king. Try writing that 100 page report on your ipad and you'll know all about it
    (not that ive ever typed more than a few pages, if that)


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    #76
    azzeretti
    Registered Users Posts: 1,477 ✭✭✭azzeretti


    bpb101 wrote: »
    desktops will always still be king.

    Do you think so? I think they're always be a place for the desktop, certainly in the corporate env but consumers just aren't buying desktops anymore, the figures are way down. Personally, I will never be without - don't have a tablet, never will. I barley spin up the laptop if I can get away with it.

    Anyhoo, I digress a little from the original topic. Lets see how long it takes to get Photoshop (native, not some crappy cloudy VM) or even the Rift working, could be just as long as Netflix!


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    #77
    bpb101
    Registered Users Posts: 2,827 ✭✭✭bpb101


    azzeretti wrote: »
    Do you think so? I think they're always be a place for the desktop, certainly in the corporate env but consumers just aren't buying desktops anymore, the figures are way down. Personally, I will never be without - don't have a tablet, never will. I barley spin up the laptop if I can get away with it.
    Completely agree with never being without a desktop . I have a laptop for college and i never use it at home.

    azzeretti wrote: »
    Anyhoo, I digress a little from the original topic. Lets see how long it takes to get Photoshop (native, not some crappy cloudy VM) or even the Rift working, could be just as long as Netflix!
    adobe have effectually given up on linux completely


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