<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>I'll take two. Where do I send the check?</span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Michael J. Hammel <mjhammel@graphics-muse.org><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> CLUE's mailing list <clue@cluedenver.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Monday, February 4, 2013 2:11 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [clue] Buying pi.<br> </font> </div> <br>
On Mon, 2013-02-04 at 12:31 -0700, Quentin Hartman wrote:<br><br>> <br>> I can't speak to whether or not hey will work with the Pi<br>> specifically, but generally speaking Hulu and Amazon Instant Video<br>> work with Linux, but Netflix does not. Netflix uses Silverlight for<br>> their player tech, and Mono does not have the DRM libs necessary to<br>> make it go.<br><br>Hulu's desktop app (non-browser) is only built for Intel. There isn't<br>an ARM build that I know of. Hulu in the browser should work on both,<br>but Flash support is iffy on the ARM. <br><br>Amazon Instant Video works great in XBMC or Chrome browsers in Intel.<br>It doesn't work quite right in Firefox because Firefox doesn't have the<br>latest Flash plugin and you can't get it for Linux anymore. Chrome has<br>it built in.<br><br>The problem on ARM is Flash. Roku has it working, but I imaging they<br>paid for their Flash license. Not
sure how or if XBMC has this problem<br>solved on ARM. I haven't got so far as to actually use XBMC to watch<br>videos on Pi yet, even with the existing Pi distros that support XBMC.<br><br>-- <br>Michael J. Hammel <<a ymailto="mailto:mjhammel@graphics-muse.org" href="mailto:mjhammel@graphics-muse.org">mjhammel@graphics-muse.org</a>><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>clue mailing list: <a ymailto="mailto:clue@cluedenver.org" href="mailto:clue@cluedenver.org">clue@cluedenver.org</a><br>For information, account preferences, or to unsubscribe see:<br>http://cluedenver.org/mailman/listinfo/clue<br><br><br> </div> </div> </div></body></html>