[mythtv-users] Free Linux alternative to PlayOn?

[David Brodbeck]

On Fri, September 18, 2009 6:37 am, Brian Wood wrote:
> It's hard to blame the Playon folks for concentrating on Windows, there
> are
> far fewer Linux users, and a lot of them do not want to pay for anything,
> or
> do not want to run non-free (as in libre) software.

I'm sure that's part of it, but I suspect a bigger reason is using Windows
allows them to use existing libraries and codecs to handle all the DRM
stuff that Netflix and other services use.  There isn't a way to decode
those streams on Linux.