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Netflix Comes To Linux Via Silverlight On Patched Wine

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Netflix video streaming is now available on Linux through the use of Wine. When running a specially patched version of Wine in conjunction with the Microsoft Windows versions of Firefox and Microsoft Silverlight, Netflix can now do Internet video streaming to the Linux desktop...

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Bob_Robertson ·
VirtualBox, running WinXP, has worked for me back when I had a NetFlix account.
helios ·
I ran it on Windows 7 64 in VB and got it running with minor fiddling. Still having fits with pass-through USB though. I quit my subscription to Netflix over two years ago but the trial version ran fine. Using Internet Exploiter 8.

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