I'll let you know how this goes, but I just got a Wii for our house and I'm planning on trying out PlayOn in a Windows virtual machine. They have the 14 day trial so I'm willing to give it a shot. <div><br></div>
<div>I've been looking for a good opensource package that will work with Hulu, but Boxee (<a href="http://www.boxee.tv">http://www.boxee.tv</a>) has never been able to play Hulu consistently good for me (audio problems, lockups, etc), plus they seem to only support the most recent Ubuntu release which is terrible for someone who never upgrades.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I'm willing to pay $20 to PlayOn if it keeps me from wasting 40 hours trying to get a "free" package to work and never succeeding. Yeah the whole windows thing sucks, but if I can get it going in a VM at least I don't have any additional hardware costs. </div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 9:08 AM, Brian Wood <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:beww@beww.org">beww@beww.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On Friday 18 September 2009 04:17:07 William wrote:<br>
> Hey listlanders,<br>
><br>
> I just read a thread about PlayOn which appears to be a commercial<br>
> product ($). Is there a free linux alternative that I can integrate with<br>
> Mythtv? Website?<br>
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</div>I'm not aware of any free (open source) product that does everything PLayON<br>
can do, but there is MediaTomb, XBMC, Boxee and a few others that implement<br>
some of PlayOn's capability.<br>
<br>
I doubt you are ever going to find a totally open source product that can<br>
implement the Netflix Watch Instantly or Amazon VOD protocols, but things<br>
like Hulu should be doable.<br>
<br>
PLayOn costs $40, though it's often discounted. I'm bothered more by the fact<br>
that it's Windows only (making the true cost higher by the price of an XP<br>
license), than by the fact that it's commercial.<br>
<br>
It all depends on what it is you want to accomplish.<br>
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