netflix 'watch now' - watch streaming movies on my pc

[mousemurder]

hi, i dont know if there are any netflixers here... :

i wrote an email to netflix asking when linux support for their 'watch now' service will be available but no answer after a month.

when i click on that link in firefox i see this page:


Minimum Requirements

* Computer running Windows XP with Service Pack 2 or higher, or Windows Vista
* Internet Explorer version 6 or higher
* Windows Media Player version 10 or higher
* An active broadband connection to the Internet
* 1.0 GHz processor
* 512 MB RAM
* 3 GB free hard disk drive space


it seems to be wm-drm wrapped in an asf stream.

i also get that error using konqueror and identifying as ie6 on windows xp.

i rebooted to my win-2k drive and got the same error.

the biggest part of the problem seems to be that windows media player 10 is required (the highest version available for win-2k is 9)

is there any hope or am i sol ?

thanks,
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also, i am having problems with the wmp10 install in wine (it exits with an error).

i tried to play the url in xine but i get this error:
The source seems encrypted, and cannot be read (Media Stream scrambled/encrypted)

is there a way to add drm functionality to xine ?
i dont want to circumvent drm, but i would like to play these movies that i paid for.

i installed mplayer on knoppix live-cd.

it seems to try to play something (i see a scrambled box with no sound) so the player thinks it is playing something because the stream information scrolls thru the kterm window. so it seems to get farthur than xine.

does anyone know how to force it to make it ask for a certificate ?

anybody have experience with vlc ?

thanks,

[WalterK]

nope drm is proprietary and as such none of the open source media players will touch it .
Even dvdjon's Itunes client simply ignored the drm on Itunes and didn't try to verify or use it.
Wine doesn't support wmp 10.
Your best bet is of course a virtual machine running XP with wmp10 to playback the drm streams.

[Solo_Senshi]

I've been using Netflix for a couple months now. It would be awesome if they came out with something for those of us that don't use Windows. There's somethings I'd rather just stream than take up a spot in my DVD queue.