[BlueCop]

Ok I would love netflix on xbmc. The problem is they use DRM on their media and I don't think there is any way around it currently. I don't think cracking sliver light would be very effective ethier. Historicly the black box cracks of wmv drm didn't last long because they designed in ways to easily update that black box component.

I have looked at the netflix app for iPad and iPhone to see how it streams. I knew they were using apples native player with tv out support so it was receiving m3u8 playlist and streams a set of transport stream files. The problem I found is that a localhost(127.0.0.1) web server is setup and then streams the media to the player. I was hoping just to proxy the app and then replicate it's function.

The problem here is that the netflix app communicates via some encrypted protocol to netflix itself and then setups up a localhost web server to make a m3u8 playlist and stream ts files. The connection between apples media player and netflix local web server is also encrypted and they have special certificates for each with the app.

I would like to disasm the app itself to figure out how it communicates with netflix but that is probably beyond me. I was thinking I could probably manage a crack to allow another program to connect to the localhost web server and then access those streams in xbmc. This would be lame though because would require an idevice.

I think now that they are on the wii, ps3, set tops, blurry players, and tv sets that if you reverse a method that is common to them then you could have functioning netflix for a while. You will have netflix working against you though. So you risk them suspending your account if they detect you. Not to mention the legality of bypassing drm.

Sadly netflix will probably never embrace Linux, mono, or xbmc. Luckily I could get much more content on usenet and drm free. I would prefer a reasonably cheap and legal method to watch the media I like but the industry and companies like netflix refuse to provide it.

Arrrr matey...