Netflix for OnlineVideos (2 Viewers)

[Ministerk]

@dOnMoP & @RicoHTPC how does the pin work; what's the "work flow"?
Does the pin input have focus? Do you need to press enter after pin? And then press play?
Could you step by step explain what you have to do when you would like to continue watching?

 

[dOnMoP]

- I start the episode
- it's loading
- then there is the pin input with focus, so I can...
- directly type in the pin
- then the button is "Abspielen" (play) gets active
- press enter and it starts playing

when the pin is typed incorrectly, the button also gets active and you get "wrong pin" and you can type in the pin again

 

[Ministerk]

Hi,

I've tried to fix the problems with starting to play videos in the browser player. Hopefully the automation works now, if not - please follow the "problem" instructions in opening post carefully before posting.

I've also fixed the broken kids categories.

The Netflix site has changed a bit and I don't know if every user has the slightly newer interface yet, if not Netflix for OV might be broken for you sometime until you get the new features.

@dOnMoP thanks for the information, not sure what I'm going to to with it yet ...

 

[Ministerk]

I've added som new stuff to Netflix.
* More information about titles
* Details categories for Titles (Creators, Directors, Cast, Genres and Tags)
* You can now add or remove from My List in the Title categories view (previous only in listings using context menu)

 

[dOnMoP]

@dOnMoP thanks for the information, not sure what I'm going to to with it yet ...

I am happy

 

[Ministerk]

Some new features again!

• Now you can browse "Netflix Home"
• Fully translated!!!
  • Uses the language setting of the owner/first profile
  • Defaults to generic english expressions if translation not available

I hope I didn't break stuff and that the translation works for you all!
Happy watching!

 

[htpcoz]

Has anyone managed to get Netflix running OK in australia.

I've just signed up for the netflix trial in Aus, and have setup my netfilx site under OnlineVideos, and while I can login, and I can see categories, as soon as I go to Home, or Browse to any of the categories, I get an error "Error getting dynamic categories".

I can't see any specific people discussing problems in the Aus version of netflix for OnlineVideos, but I guess you never know... Thought I'd give it a try, anyone have any ideas if the issue here is something specific to Netflix Aus, or perhaps I've set something up wrong ?

[12-06 22:50:38,692] [OnlineVideos] [WARN ] System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

Server stack trace:
   at OnlineVideos.Sites.BrowserUtilConnectors.NetfilxWebUtil.GetHomeCategories(Category parentCategory)
   at OnlineVideos.Sites.BrowserUtilConnectors.NetfilxWebUtil.<>c__DisplayClass14.<GetProfileSubCategories>b__c()
   at OnlineVideos.Sites.BrowserUtilConnectors.NetfilxWebUtil.DiscoverSubCategories(Category parentCategory)
   at System.Runtime.Remoting.Messaging.StackBuilderSink._PrivateProcessMessage(IntPtr md, Object[] args, Object server, Object[]& outArgs)
   at System.Runtime.Remoting.Messaging.StackBuilderSink.SyncProcessMessage(IMessage msg)

Exception rethrown at [0]:
   at System.Runtime.Remoting.Proxies.RealProxy.HandleReturnMessage(IMessage reqMsg, IMessage retMsg)
   at System.Runtime.Remoting.Proxies.RealProxy.PrivateInvoke(MessageData& msgData, Int32 type)
   at OnlineVideos.Sites.SiteUtilBase.DiscoverSubCategories(Category parentCategory)
   at OnlineVideos.MediaPortal1.GUIOnlineVideos.<>c__DisplayClass25.<DisplayCategories>b__1f()
   at OnlineVideos.MediaPortal1.Gui2UtilConnector.<>c__DisplayClass5.<ExecuteInBackgroundAndCallback>b__2()
[12-06 22:50:41,346] [OVThumbs0   ] [INFO ] Invalid Image: 'http://cdn-0.nflximg.com/ffe/profiles/avatars_v2/320x320/PICON_default.png' The remote server returned an error: (404) Not Found.

 

[Ministerk]

Has anyone managed to get Netflix running OK in australia.

I've just signed up for the netflix trial in Aus, and have setup my netfilx site under OnlineVideos, and while I can login, and I can see categories, as soon as I go to Home, or Browse to any of the categories, I get an error "Error getting dynamic categories".

I can't see any specific people discussing problems in the Aus version of netflix for OnlineVideos, but I guess you never know... Thought I'd give it a try, anyone have any ideas if the issue here is something specific to Netflix Aus, or perhaps I've set something up wrong ?

I haven't heard about any problems with the current implementation of Netflix. It might be that your Netflix account is a new "unused" one and some initial usage and configuration on the website is needed to get things to work in OV.

Otherwise check the prerequisites of Netflix for OV and report the problem with full logs, instructions in opening post.

 

[htpcoz]

Thanks Ministerk will double check everything and send through full logs if problems persist, main thing was that I didn't want to do too much if it just wasn't supported at all.

 

[htpcoz]

It seems that you might be right, I think I may have had to use my account externally from MP for a bit before the structures that OV was looking for got into place. Now I can see the categories, sub categories and media content in OV, and request to play a media item.

The problem I now have is the login process in the media browser fails at the beginning when confronted with the Profiles screen "who's watching", at this point the scripting seems to pause (not sure if it's not expecting the profiles page to load at this point), if I manually use a mouse to select my profile then the process continues to play the movie, but it is inside a window, and that window takes up around 75% of the screen (probably 720 P resolution)... I'm guessing that perhaps the manual intervention is to blame here.... so will do a bit more investigating and capture some debug logs (although browser debug log just seems to say "log in failed").

Is the profiles page the "Who's watching" screen supported in the automated sequence to view media ? or do I need to change something in my configuration to suppress this screen ? I couldn't see anything obvious in my account settings, I only have the one profile. Apologies for the dumb questions It's my first use of either OV or Netflix so I'm not sure what might be "new" and what is normal.