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The one benefit of Silverlight is that it's not as cpu intensive as Flash. It's nice because you can play it on an older pc/laptop. DRM isn't a big concern si
by jim_h 16y ago
The one benefit of Silverlight is that it's not as cpu intensive as Flash. It's nice because you can play it on an older pc/laptop.
DRM isn't a big concern since you're not buying the movies. It is different from buying and downloading songs. You weren't expecting them to let you keep the movies, right?
- baddox 16y agoDRM is still a big concern if your HTPC runs Linux and they don't provide a client that works with Linux.
- jim_h 16y agoThere's moonlight, which is a Silverlight alternative for linux. I just installed it for Ubuntu. Painless to install. edit: You guys are right. Netflix doesn't work under linux. I just tried it under Ubuntu. No go. It's too bad since Silverlight does use less power and Netflix has impressed me so far.
- drivebyacct2 16y agoMicrosoft doesn't license their PlayReady DRM components unless it is hardware secured. The only Netflix platforms that Linux works on have PlayReady chips in them basically - Roku, and Boxee literally JUST got Netflix support. Moonlight absolutely doesn't work in Ubuntu. And Silverlight runs like a dog in a VM, even with 2d/3d accel (and turned off since they're not 100% stable) and that's giving my VM 3 cores and 3 GB of my memory, AND it's on a separate hard drive than my host OS. Netflix is completely worthless to Linux users. I welcome competition from Amazon.
- jrockway 16y agoMicrosoft doesn't license their PlayReady DRM components unless it is hardware secured So you mean to say that the average Windows XP box is "hardware secured"? I think you mean, "Microsoft doesn't license their PlayReady DRM components to anyone that isn't big enough to hurt its adoption".
- diego 16y agoDo you use Netflix? A while back I bought a Zotac Mag to have as my entertainment center. I set up Ubuntu on it, my usual dev tools and Boxee. I found out that there was no way to make Netflix work on Linux, other than through a Windows VM (which the Mag's cpu couldn't deal with). Because I had to have Netflix (my wife uses it all the time) I took the Mag to the office and bought a used Mac Mini on Craiglist just for this.
- theBobMcCormick 16y agoWhy didn't you just loaded Windows on the Mag? Windows 7 Media Center has one of the best Netflix clients I've seen. Also Boxee on Windows will do Netflix, although last time I tried it the Boxee version of the NetFlix client was really, really shitty.
- jolan 16y agoAtom CPUs are too slow for virtualized media playback.