![]() ![]() Run the Netflix Android App - You could try to run the Netflix Android app in the Android SDK emulator, but it would be extremely slow.Unfortunately, the Netflix app for Chrome OS requires a special Netflix Video Player plugin that only appears to function on Chrome OS - copying these files to a Linux desktop will result in an error when trying to play Netflix. As the Chrome browser is available for Linux, you might think it’s possible to install the Chrome OS plugin on Linux somehow. Install the Chrome OS Netflix Plugin - Chrome OS is based on Linux and the Netflix app allows video streaming on Chrome OS.As Moonlight lacks DRM support, Netflix will not play in Moonlight. Use Moonlight, an Open-Source Silverlight Implementation for Linux - Moonlight was supposed to bring support for Silverlight web content to Linux, but Microsoft refuses to license Silverlight’s DRM (digital rights/restrictions management) implementation to Moonlight.Netflix could create a solution for Linux users, but they have so far declined to do so - their help page doesn’t even acknowledge that Linux exists.īefore we get into the gory details, here are some clever ideas that could theoretically allow us to watch Netflix on Linux - none of which actually work: As no official version of Silverlight is available for Linux, Netflix won’t work on Linux. Netflix doesn’t work on Linux because the standard web player uses Silverlight - Microsoft’s ill-fated and seemingly abandoned competitor to Adobe Flash - instead of the Flash plugin. ![]()
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