Comments on: Day 8 – 10 Days of Ubuntu 10.10 Feature Requests

By: Ubuntu 10.10 – Netflix Support? « tektease

Ubuntu 10.10 – Netflix Support? « tektease — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 03:47:43 +0000

[...] Ubuntu 10.10 Needs a Better Online Video Experience. [...]

By: Brad

Brad — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 03:29:22 +0000

Ah another avicator for html5 :D. Hopefully flash 10.1 will help.

By: Micah

Micah — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 08:46:14 +0000

Good posts, Tanner. I just stumbled across your blog as I was looking for information on when the Silverlight’s DRM might make it into Moonlight.

This isn’t a terribly important priority for me, since I just run VirtualBox and XP on my linux installation if I need to watch Netflix, but I want to switch my parents’ rig over to Ubuntu and I’d like it if they could watch Netflix. That said, I haven’t helped them subscribe to netflix yet — just mentioned it today –and now that I remember Netflix won’t work with Linux, I might tell them not to bother with Netflix. Maybe Netflix just lost a potential subscriber.

As for Canonical putting pressure on Netflix, I have to say that that doesn’t seem too likely to work. Whatever pressure Canonical can bring to bear MS can easily match, I’m afraid.

By: Jesse Dhillon

Jesse Dhillon — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 00:16:32 +0000

Just switched from Firefox to Google Chrome for Linux. The flash video experience is a vast improvement. Youtube and other flash videos would jump and have choppy playback, freezing while the audio continued, and fullscreen was out of the question.

The videos in Chrome make it seem like I’m watching TV. I’ve experienced the same poor quality with FF for Windows, and had the same improvement when switching to Chrome. I really think the issue is the bloated Firefox browser, not the Flash plugin.

By: manny

manny — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 04:54:35 +0000

flash works much better for me since this 32bit release

if youtube opens their html5 section then there wont be much need for flash on the web

however some features like their new ad inside video thingie needs a workaround for html5

but we got dailymotion :)
http://www.dailymotion.com/openvideodemo

By: Ian M

Ian M — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 10:31:04 +0000

I think it's really rather unfair to complain about the fact that the 64-bit Flash plugin for Linux is in alpha. Linux is the only platform that's got a 64-bit version at all! See the Adobe FAQ on support for other platforms.