Quoting Darth Borehd (darth.bor...@gmail.com): > I've been trying to get Netflix's "Watch Instantly" feature to work on > Linux. I've installed Moonlight, WINE, and User Agent Switcher for Firefox > (to spoof their website into thinking I am running IE 7). I tried going > through Boxee too (total bust). I'm out of ideas. Anybody been able to > crack this riddle?
You might be able to make it work using all-Win32 versions of everything under WINE or some other Win32 environment _under_ Linux. This matter came up recently on another mailing list, so I'll just quote from my post: This appears to be Microsoft Corp's "PlayReady DRM" shipped with the Silverlight software. Checking around, I see that they deliberately restrict which OSes the DRM OKs operation on. For example, OS X operation is OK'ed by the DRM software only on Intel-based Macs running Silverlight 2.0. I.e., even PowerPC Mac OS X users running Silverlight 1.0 are shut out. Microsoft's been sucking up to Our Masters in Hollywood, and pushing the ability of PlayReady DRM to control customers, for some time. See, e.g.: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2008/apr08/04-14SilverlightContentPR.mspx http://www.betanews.com/article/First-look-at-DRM-for-Silverlight/1208194304 http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/ages9/hands_on_moonlight_2_brings_silverlight_2_bits_of/ Note: Microsoft licenses PlayReady today for certain use cases, but they do not have a port for Linux which prevents Moonlight from using it. It is very unlikely that we will get PlayReady DRM on Linux. -- Miguel de Icaza Our Masters in Hollywood don't mind providing PlayReady DRM on a Linux-based embedded device that's sufficiently well handcuffed, however, such as the Roku Netfix Player: http://www.linux.com/archive/feature/142729 Note comment: Actually, I doubt the claim that Netflix chose Windows Media DRM because they bought a system from Microsoft; my guess is they chose it because it's the only system the content owners allow them to use. I work for a company that runs on-demand movie services. Everybody I've met on the retail side of this industry hates DRM and I'm sure Netflix doesn't like inflicting it on their customers. However, thus far, content owners, particularly larger ones, have been entirely unwilling to license their content to on-demand services that don't use DRM, and Windows Media is the only DRM implementation that is even slightly viable (yeah, it's broken, harmful technology. You don't have to convince me.) _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech