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Netflix on Linux!

replica9000

replica9000

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For those that didn't know, starting with Google Chrome 37 (not Chromium), Netflix playback works on Linux. It also appears that you no longer need to spoof your user-agent to do this either. Just make sure your libnss3 is up-to-date.
 
Just did that yesterday, my kids wanted to see some movies. Took some time to figure out what was not working out of the box. I had to install chrome beta on ubuntu 14.04 and than start it from a shell because beta does use google-chrome-beta as command and the shortcut did not work. After that netflix worked 🙂
 
Heh, I remember I tried to swith to Linux completely a few years ago. I was working my way through learning all the different apps and different ways of doing things and then I got to Netflix, researched around the web for a few days and finally realized that there really was no workaround at all. I was stunned, and just went back to windows.
 
replica9000 said:
Natively? Or with Wine or VM? I had tried years ago with Wine and PoL with silverlight without success. I would get as far as loading, but would never actually play anything.
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There was "Netflix Desktop" which was a patched wine, silverlight, Windows version of firefox combo. It worked pretty well.

Then came pipelight which allowed silverlight (and other windows plugins) to be run in a Linux browser of your choice. It still need a special patched wine IIRC.
 
sweet!

i've been running ubuntu 14.04 on my HTPC, and was having to switch inputs on the TV to a ROKU streaming box to watch netflix in the living room...


looks like it's time to do an overhaul and probably go to MINT 17 on that machine...
 
zanejohnson said:
sweet!

i've been running ubuntu 14.04 on my HTPC, and was having to switch inputs on the TV to a ROKU streaming box to watch netflix in the living room...


looks like it's time to do an overhaul and probably go to MINT 17 on that machine...
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You have to be kidding!changing Ubuntu1404 for Mint 17,it's like owning a BMW and going to a Fiat as issues wise.
 
replica9000 said:
I would think going from Ubuntu 14.04 to Mint 17 is like going from a BMW to a BMW with fancier wheels.
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i've stated Mint with Issues not Eye candy desktops,
may people rather have an eye candy desktop and OPS disto then an efficient Distro and trouble free.i myself i don't give a damn for eye candy linux or Desktops,what i look for is piece of mind,and Ubuntu gives me that,some people for example like KDE desktop but all you get is a bunch of issues.
 
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