On Sun, 22 Feb 2015 14:27:33 -0600, Matthew Moore wrote: > [...] > For whatever reason, Netflix and Amazon video only seem to work happily > inside of a browser these days. I know that in the past Netflix > explicitly didn't work on Linux, and required doing some virtualization > if you wanted to use it. I still don't know if they will stream HD to a > Linux box. In the end, I decided that downloading was better than > streaming. >
Mint 17 with pulling the latest version of google-chrome "just works" (tm) -- at least with a fresh install that I hadn't had time to screw up by reading out of date howto's. With that said, I /may/ have enabled html5 playback on a Windows box first, and have just forgotten I did that bit. Best to check that you have html5 enabled. Though, yeah, I do prefer using my internal network over streaming. TWC goes to pot in my area pretty much at 15:00, and is touchy at best until about 20:00. Any attempts at getting it fixed result in "We don't care. We don't have to. We're the cable company." >[...] > > I've been using Debian's XBMC on an old laptop connected to the TV for a > long time. *Mostly* it works really well and is much better than any > commercial product I've used. Confirming XBMC is nice, although I prefer rasBMC these days, as it's easier to hide the Raspberry Pi. Not to mention, it's dead silent, and draws little power. Granted, it does have fairly limited RAM/CPU power, though I believe I've got one of the older versions. Some of the breakout boards, such as the IR Receiver are really helpful in the "turn it into a HTPC" arena. > [...] > > I think that a lot of the HTPC software tries to hide the fact that it's > running on a computer, or encourages you to never leave its own > interface. Yeah, rasbmc is pretty much the same here, though the interface isn't that bad once you've configured it - or at least it's no worse than the interface for my receiver/bluray player. It's been a while since I've used the raspi as anything other than an endpoint for media hosted on my LAN, but I recall that if you wanted youtube, it would reboot the device and give you a full-blown browser ... or well as "full blown" as you can get on the raspi. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/mcdhh8$qu6$1...@ger.gmane.org
