[mythtv-users] OT: I'm streaming Netflix on my Linux box
EJS
ejshoor at yahoo.com
Thu Oct 30 12:19:30 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.
I'm just curious if anyone has been able to get this to work with a non-XBMC approach. I was able to use djmount to mount the upnp content as a virtual drive, but when I use the Video Manger to load the new content, it hangs on loading and eventually Mythfrontend crashes after a few hours.
I am not surprised that it is taking alot of time to load the new content since PlayOn offers alot between CBS, Hulu, ESPN, etc. However, in trying to diagnose the bottleneck, I noticed my myth box is performing fine - cpu untilization, memory, bandwith all look very low. However, on my windows box, the PlayOn executable is pegging the cpu.
Thanks,
J
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