[mythtv-users] Comcast Cable encrypted channels

[Alan Marchiori]

On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 12:53 PM, Andrew Gallatin<gallatin at cs.duke.edu> wrote:
> Alan Marchiori [alan at alanmarian.com] wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Brian Wood<beww at beww.org> wrote:
>> > On Tuesday 04 August 2009 10:52:43 Alan Marchiori wrote:
>> >> On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Brian Wood<beww at beww.org> wrote:
>> >> > On Tuesday 04 August 2009 10:18:35 Michael T. Dean wrote:
>> >> >> And, since those of you who want to use Netflix Watch Instantly can go
>> >> >> out an buy a Roku Netflix Player for $99 or less, there's absolutely no
>> >> >> reason to put the MythTV project and developers in a dangerous position.
>> >> >
>> >> > Much less in some cases. The PlayON server will allow you to watch
>> >> > Netflix on any UPnP/DLNA device, and costs $40, though it's often
>> >> > available for less.
>> >> >
>> >> > The main problem is PlayON is Windows only.
>> >>
>> >> If you setup a PlayON server wouldn't that make it also possible to
>> >> watch Netfilx et. al. from a mythfrontend? ?Are there any good
>> >> upnp/dlna clients for linux that would be easy to integrate into
>> >> mythfrontend (if it is not so already)?
>> >
>> > I've been looking for such a beast, and haven't found one yet.
>> >
>> > I'm certainly open to ideas, so far I've been using a PS3, an Xbox, a D-Link
>> > DSM-520 and a Myka. All work quite well, but having it integrated into a Myth
>> > frontend would be great.
>> >
>>
>> have you tried XBMC?  It seems to support both linux and is a UPnP
>> client.  I'm thinking of trying it at least... then just put a button
>> on the main myth menu to launch XBMC..?
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> I tried XBMC with a trial version of PlayON (which was running on XP
> in a Virtual Box VM on my Hardy server) to stream Hulu.  It worked
> tolerably well, except that fast foward and rewind did not work at
> all. This is apparently a well known bug with PlayOn and XBMC.
>
> I finally just decided to use Boxee for Hulu, until Hulu shuts them
> out again.
>

Looks like Boxee is based on XBMC and would eliminate the need to run
the playon server on a VM...

Also Boxee seems to support netflix streaming.  I thought this was not
possible on linux?  or is netflix only supported on a the windows
build?