[clue] Buying pi.

[TJ Ye]

I'll have 12 of them running in a month, most of them for TV, a couple for
video games.

On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 5:43 PM, Vincent Randal <vtrandal at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I'll take two. Where do I send the check?
>
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> *From:* Michael J. Hammel <mjhammel at graphics-muse.org>
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> 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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