i’ve known about the netflix through wine option for quite some time. however, i had limited success with it because all i could get to stream was audio with garbled video. the problem turned out being on my end because i didn’t have the composite extension enabled in X. to do so with an nvidia video card run nvidia-xconfig –composite and to disable run nvidia-xconfig –no-composite. clearly the official nvidia drivers need to be installed to use this method…

there’s a very user friendly way to install the netflix solution through a PPA:
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ehoover/compholio
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install netflix-desktop

sources:
http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/256.35/README/xcompositeextension.html
http://www.iheartubuntu.com/2012/11/ppa-for-netflix-desktop-app.html

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