[mythtv-users] Netflix Streaming on Myth box?

[Nick F]

On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 12:45 AM, Allen Edwards
<allen.p.edwards at gmail.com>wrote:

> I want to watch netflix streaming movies on my mythtv system.  I have
> researched it and it looks like there are three ways to do this: 1) There
> is a hack that streams to a Windows PC then to the myth box.  I ruled that
> out
> 2) Buy a Roku or X-Box which basically bypasses the myth issue
> 3) run XP under Linux and run that way.  This looks like the most
> interesting way.
>

I use (3) - which is to run XP under VirtualBox (http://www.virtualbox.org/)
and ALT-TAB to the XP session when I want to run Netflix.  Be sure to use
the version you download from their website - not the one that comes in the
repositories.   It works fine - except I get a little video tearing which I
haven't been able to track down.

I also use (4) which is to run Myth under OSX on a mac mini, and use boxee
for Netflix.  The OSX version of Boxee works with Netflix (the GNU/Linux one
doesn't).
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