[clue] Buying pi.

Michael J. Hammel mjhammel at graphics-muse.org
Mon Feb 4 14:11:00 MST 2013


On Mon, 2013-02-04 at 12:31 -0700, Quentin Hartman wrote:

> 
> I can't speak to whether or not hey will work with the Pi
> specifically, but generally speaking Hulu and Amazon Instant Video
> work with Linux, but Netflix does not. Netflix uses Silverlight for
> their player tech, and Mono does not have the DRM libs necessary to
> make it go.

Hulu's desktop app (non-browser) is only built for Intel.  There isn't
an ARM build that I know of.  Hulu in the browser should work on both,
but Flash support is iffy on the ARM.  

Amazon Instant Video works great in XBMC or Chrome browsers in Intel.
It doesn't work quite right in Firefox because Firefox doesn't have the
latest Flash plugin and you can't get it for Linux anymore.  Chrome has
it built in.

The problem on ARM is Flash.  Roku has it working, but I imaging they
paid for their Flash license.  Not sure how or if XBMC has this problem
solved on ARM.  I haven't got so far as to actually use XBMC to watch
videos on Pi yet, even with the existing Pi distros that support XBMC.

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Michael J. Hammel <mjhammel at graphics-muse.org>



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