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I doubt you can do it. Besides requiring IE, you also have to download and run a Windows based viewer. Even using Windows XP with Firefox, I've never been able to get it running without IE. -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: Rogelio <scubacuda at gmail.com>> Has anyone here been able to view Netflix movies on CentOS? (It requires > Internet Explorer, and I'm wondering what the workaround is for Firefox)-------------- next part -------------- An embedded message was scrubbed... From: Rogelio <scubacuda at gmail.com> Subject: [CentOS] Watching Netflix movies on CentOS Date: Sat, 3 May 2008 05:43:51 +0000 Size: 1442 URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080503/8e6883d4/attachment.mht>
On Sat, May 03, 2008, techlists at comcast.net wrote:>I doubt you can do it. Besides requiring IE, you also have to download and >run a Windows based viewer. Even using Windows XP with Firefox, I've never >been able to get it running without IE.I heard an interview with Bill Joy in which he asked if it would make sense to have an 800 number that was only accessible with phones from Microsoft. Personally I dropped Netflix years ago when they started spamming me (and we had gotten TiVo). ... Bill -- INTERNET: bill at celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way Voice: (206) 236-1676 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820 Fax: (206) 232-9186 Ah, you know the type. They like to blame it all on the Jews or the Blacks, 'cause if they couldn't, they'd have to wake up to the fact that life's one big, scary, glorious, complex and ultimately unfathomable crapshoot -- and the only reason THEY can't seem to keep up is they're a bunch of misfits and losers. -- A analysis of Neo-Nazis, from "The Badger" comic
Rogelio wrote:> Has anyone here been able to view Netflix movies on CentOS? (It requires > Internet Explorer, and I'm wondering what the workaround is for Firefox)There is none. Their "movies you can instantly watch" can *only* be watched with IE *and* Windows Media Player 11, which leads me to the conclusion that they are under heavy DRM (Digital Restriction Management) - which isn't available for anything else than Windows. In other words: They don't want your money. If I were you, I'd respect that. Make yourself heard over at Netflix, though. Ralph -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080504/aee13b6a/attachment.sig>
Ralph Angenendt wrote on Sun, 4 May 2008 10:22:11 +0200:> In other words: They don't want your money. If I were you, I'd respect > that. Make yourself heard over at Netflix, though.I remember about the Netflix format from before 2000. It's a very low bandwidth format with really bad quality. AFAIK it was mainly porn sites using it. I thought it had died out since long. Kai -- Kai Sch?tzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com
Rogelio wrote:> Has anyone here been able to view Netflix movies on CentOS? (It > requires Internet Explorer, and I'm wondering what the workaround is for > Firefox)I wonder if IE + Win Media Player under (a recent version of) Wine would be able to play the Netflix on demand movies. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/