Thread: [Maemo 5] Netflix on N900, anyone?
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2010-04-29 , 20:46
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Originally Posted by sjgadsby View Post
Moonlight is built on Mono, which would be a heavy port. Then, once you ported Mono and Moonlight and got them working, you'd be prompted to run the Moonlight Codecs Installer and agree to Microsoft's EULA for their proprietary codecs. Were you able to get those codecs to install somehow, they wouldn't work on an ARMEL device like the N900 as the codecs were compiled for x86. But that's okay because Moonlight doesn't support DRM, so Netflix won't stream anything to you anyway.
You have captured the real reason for asking NetFlix to release the Linux package - DRM. It is a sad fact that as long as there are people trying to make money from their intellectual property there are people who are going to attempt to not pay for it. So DRM makes it possible to provide the milk without giving away the cow. No doubt a streaming application provided by Netflix would preserve the difficulty in mis-appropriating the content.

I've been a subscriber to Netflix since they had 7800 titles in their catalogue. I would really enjoy being able to watch a short or cartoon on the N900 to fill in idle moments when I am tired of playing Angry Birds. I would like to see that application come from them.