Streaming Netflix to the Xbox 360

posted Jun 24th 2008 5:50pm by Eliot
filed under: home entertainment hacks

We were just as excited as anyone when we heard about Roku’s Linux based Netflix Player, but not being ones to spend money on hardware, even $99, we’d much rather use something that’s laying around that’s not living up to its full potential. Lifehacker has a guide for using vmcNetflix to stream Watch Instantly movies to the Xbox 360. vmcNetflix is a Media Center plugin. When the 360 was originally released, you could only get Media Center by buying a new PC, now it’s included with Vista, meaning people might actually use it.

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tagged: lifehacker, mediacenter, netflix, vista, vmcnetflix, watchinstantly

4 Responses to Streaming Netflix to the Xbox 360

miked says:

June 24, 2008 at 6:24 pm

i approve of this post

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Carlton says:

June 24, 2008 at 9:25 pm

Netflix is great, Instant Watching is awesome, but wait…IW doesn’t work in Linux. How can the Roku by running Linux?

From what I understand, IW requires Internet Explorer, ActiveX and DirectX. Please, someone, correct me if this is not the case, but I understand people haven’t even got IW working under Wine in Linux.

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moridinga says:

June 24, 2008 at 10:14 pm

Why the heck does this site look like total ass when I view it in Firefox, but looks terrific when I view it in IE6? Am I the only one with this problem?

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john says:

June 25, 2008 at 5:00 am

@carlton:
The Roku is a hardware box made to connect directly to the TV. Being linux based mainly means it runs off Linux. Sorta like Tivo, I guess.

You could probably use it to stream videos to Linux since it supports RCA, S-Video, component, and HDMI cables. You just have to have the ability to view TV input.

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