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Need Help watching Netflix online on my Ubuntu 10.04

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I have Ubuntu 10.04 and I have an netflix account. I want to watch movies instantly online but it won't work for ubuntu 10.04 can anyone help or give me a thing that will make it work once i click play. thanks

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Seems its a windows only app. All I can find is people running it in a virtualbox which will involve a windows license and the bloat of running a windows OS inside Ubuntu.

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marcus aurelius (adbiz) said : 		#2

You might try installing the VLC (videolan) player and checking the "mozilla plugin" during install. VLC plays streaming video. The Synaptic Package Manager has a old version (1.0.6). You can do a search on this site to locate the source for version 1.1.2.

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Innate Ideas (innate-ideas-gmail) said : 		#3

The problem with streaming Netflix movies to Linux is the Microsoft DRM that is required. Nobody, that I am aware of, has a good direct solution for this yet. My solution was to use Playon software from Mediamall running on a PC to act as a proxy. Playon presents Netflix, Hulu, and other video streaming sites over the network as a UPNP/DLNA source. I described my solution in more detail on my blog at www.innate-ideas.net. It's not perfect but it worked for me.

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