[mythtv-users] OT: I'm streaming Netflix on my Linux box

Jason Sullivan jason0x21 at gmail.com
Tue Oct 7 14:46:38 UTC 2008


On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 2:58 PM, Matt Emmott <memmott at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hope I don't ruffle any feathers since it's not strictly Myth related but I
> see so many requests around Netflix that I thought I'd share. Using a beta
> piece of not-free software for Windows called PlayOn
> (http://www.themediamall.com/playon) and XBMC on my Myth box I'm reliably
> streaming my Instant Watch Netflix queue over UPnP.

No feathers ruffled here.  I'm intrigued.  Is XBMC required for this,
or can MythTV be a UPnP client without it?
XBMC seems a lot to install just to be a client with many of the
features already in the MythTV frontend.  Or am I missing something
here?

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Jason Sullivan
jason0x21 at gmail.com


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