Silverlight/Netflix on Ubuntu

Has anyone figured out a work around to get to watch netflixs Instant Que movies on Ubuntu.

I've recently realized 90% of my games are Linux compatible so i no longer have a real reason to run windows except i cant seem to get Netflix's Silverlight to load in.

Seems a waste to dual boot just for movies

 

Silverlight is a Microsoft product, so don't expect an official linux release. It may eventually work via Wine. Keep checking the wine page. If you feel really adventurous, try to help get it working.

 

I'm not sure this has anything to do with Silverlight as I can't watch them in Firefox either even though Silverlight coded websites work fine.

 

When using Vista i can manually install Silverlight into firefox and watch the movies. But it has som pretty major "hick-ups" like always skipping to the end of a movie (end credits) or will randomly start me back 6+ episodes in a series if i leave it paused for more than a few minutes.

Still hick-ups aside it worked... but i'm so poor at linux (still in the steep learning curve part) that i have no idea how to manually install it...

I miss netflix, but i'm not giving up on Linux this time. So far the only things i use that i cant run natively are Sins of a Solar Empire and Netflix.

 

That's why I referenced wine. You may have to install firefox via wine and then install silverlight to use on that firefox install.

 

Yeah thats probably what i'm going to have to do... really dont know why i didnt think about that.

Thanks for the help

 

You are wrong. Online video niche is already taken by Adobe flash. Applets market is taken by Sun's Java. Facing these facts, Micro$oft had to make a very unusual move: they support an open-source port of .NET (called "mono") and open-source port of Silverlight (called "moonlight" ). Both mono and moonlight are in active development, so you can expect stable releases soon. Java has been GPL'ed recently as well, but there is no way Adobe will ever open sources of flash.

 

Oh really? I honestly hadn't followed silverlight nor any of Microsoft's doings. Thanks for correcting me.

 

Lookup Moonlight, it's like the opensource implementation of Silverlight.

 

As of a few months ago, Netflix HAS started using the silverlight runtime for content delivery.. which Moonlight can run instead of, but this still leaves the .NET dependency open (which Olive exists but... ALL of Moonlight, and Olive, are Novell Software!!) as of now, I'm not sure that there IS a Linux-only solution for watching Netflix movies, if there ARE, someone's keeping mighty quiet...

 

I see nothing wrong with the Novell-Microsoft collaboration. It's churned out a lot of good for the OSS community.

OT: Moonlight rocks! Go, Microsoft!

 

that's it...was trying to remember the name....never used it though.

 

Pray-tell, what good for the community is that? I haven't seen anything good come out of Moonlight or .NET for Linux, and I haven't heard anything in the last few months of any development advances. The only thing I can see Moonlight as being good for is for Microsoft to get it's foot in the OSS door, and try to convince people to switch away from Linux. The only other strategy would be for them trying to get people to switch away from Adobe, but that would only be a first step to getting people to switch away from Linux.