Netflix for OnlineVideos (1 Viewer)

[RicoHTPC]

At my clients the netflix home page isn't working.
Anybody else having this?

 

[Ministerk]

At my clients the netflix home page isn't working.
Anybody else having this?

Nope, your'e not alone. Worked earlier today... But not now.

 

[Ministerk]

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.

Great

Is the profiles page the "Who's watching" screen supported in the automated sequence to view media ?

Yes it's a part of the automation.

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").

It might be a timeout, could you increase the timeout of the BrowserPlayer? Follow the instructions in opening post.

I only have the one profile.

Could you try create another just to test with?

and that window takes up around 75% of the screen

That's strange, could you take a screenshot if it occurs again? (If you can... the remote handling of the BrowserPlayer might intervene)

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.

You have nothing to be sorry about, all your questions are reasonable and on topic. But don't push it , nah just kidding

 

[Ministerk]

At my clients the netflix home page isn't working.
Anybody else having this?

Now it works for me again! I don't know what happened. Going to add some extra debugging to the site util. Publishing tomorrow.

 

[Ministerk]

@RicoHTPC I've added a sanity null check in the get home categories source. Also added some extra verbose debugging, enable this in site configuration (does only work if log level is set to debug in MP config). You can also try to get fewer categories in Home, change in site setting.

 

[Ministerk]

New version:
Fixed Kids categories and playback for Kids profiles,
Added extra logging in BrowserPlayer for easier debugging of automation

Question: does everything work for you all or do you have some big or minor problems? @htpcoz @RicoHTPC ?

 

[nadnad]

Upgraded to latest version MP v1.13 with all defaults. Everything seems to be working as before (MP v1.12) besides the STOP button on the remote for Netflix (Online Videos). I was using MCE remote option before in MP v1.12 but that tab has been removed in MP v1.13 and now have Generic HID device selected by default for the remote in configurations menu. With this setting, the MCE remote is working as before on all other sections, Music, Pictures, Videos, TV, etc. But pressing Stop on MCE remote no longer exits the Netflix Browser player window.

Anything I need to configure in order to have this functionality back in MP v1.13?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Ministerk]

Upgraded to latest version MP v1.13 with all defaults. Everything seems to be working as before (MP v1.12) besides the STOP button on the remote for Netflix (Online Videos). I was using MCE remote option before in MP v1.12 but that tab has been removed in MP v1.13 and now have Generic HID device selected by default for the remote in configurations menu. With this setting, the MCE remote is working as before on all other sections, Music, Pictures, Videos, TV, etc. But pressing Stop on MCE remote no longer exits the Netflix Browser player window.

Anything I need to configure in order to have this functionality back in MP v1.13?

Thanks in advance.

I'm also on MP 1.13 using HID with an MCE (RC6) Remote and have no problems with stop. To exit the browser player you could also try to press the back key or esc key (if you have such a key on your remote).

One thing you could try is to edit the OnlineVideos.WebAutomation.BrowserHost.exe.config file (found in [MP-INSTALL-PATH]l\plugins\Windows\OnlineVideos) and change this value to either true or false:

<add key="EnableMP1SpecificRemoteHandling" value="true"/>

If this does not help, complete logs are needed. Follow all the instructions about logs in the opening post, and while repeating your problem please do it according to a "test case"

Example:
* Video starts to play
* Press right once
* Press play once
* Press pause once
* Press stop once
* Press back once (if Stop didn't work)
* Press esc once (on keyboard if not on remote and if back doesn't work)

Remember your test case and inform what you did in your error report.

There is no guarantee that I or we will your (or every remote) to work with the BrowserPlayer but we can try with the help of users and proper feedback.

 

[nadnad]

Appreciate your quick response. I did get this to work correctly. I suspect what fixed the issue was the following steps:

1) closed media portal
2) opened MP configuration UI
3) clicked on all the tabs under configuring HID remote devices (but did not change anything)
4) closed MP configuration UI and ran MP
5) was certain that the problem still remains, but surprised to find out the STOP button on MCE remote was working now

Only thing I can think of is that reviewing all the tabs under config UI and then pressing OK to exit the configUI, re-wrote the config files? and solved the issue.

Thought I post these steps here, just incase someone else might run into the same issue.

Cheers.

 

[Ministerk]

Appreciate your quick response. I did get this to work correctly. I suspect what fixed the issue was the following steps:

1) closed media portal
2) opened MP configuration UI
3) clicked on all the tabs under configuring HID remote devices (but did not change anything)
4) closed MP configuration UI and ran MP
5) was certain that the problem still remains, but surprised to find out the STOP button on MCE remote was working now

Only thing I can think of is that reviewing all the tabs under config UI and then pressing OK to exit the configUI, re-wrote the config files? and solved the issue.

Thought I post these steps here, just incase someone else might run into the same issue.

Cheers.

Great! And thanks for reporting!