[mythtv-users] NetFlix MythTV integration

Nick F nikos.f at gmail.com
Fri Dec 5 20:21:29 UTC 2008


On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 1:17 PM, Kevin Kuphal <kkuphal at gmail.com> wrote:

>  On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 4:37 PM, Brad DerManouelian <
> myth at dermanouelian.com> wrote:
>
>>  On Dec 4, 2008, at 2:23 PM, Kevin Kuphal wrote:
>>
>> > On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 10:30 AM, Brad DerManouelian <
>> myth at dermanouelian.com
>> > > wrote:
>> > I got an email that I can now use NetFlix's Watch Now feature on my
>> > Mac. It requires Microsoft's Silverlight plugin. I did a quick search
>> > and found the Moonlight project (open source version of Silverlight)
>> > http://www.mono-project.com/Moonlight
>> >
>>
>> I guess I should have asked, "Any *helpful* thoughts?"
>>
>
> Since Boxee themselves say "Not until Netflix offers Linux support"...I
> guess maybe it wasn't so unhelpful of a suggestion after all...
>
> http://blog.boxee.tv/2008/12/04/boxee/
>
> Kevin
>
> The best I can manage is running Windows inside a Virtualbox on my
Mythfrontend.  We watch quite a few shows from Netflix that way - and at
least it's coming through the frontend that's already connected to the TV
and stereo.  I get a fair bit of video tearing though unfortunately - not
enough to be unwatchable though.
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