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<blockquote data-quote="Dave Reynolds" data-source="post: 924220" data-attributes="member: 119609">Hi,&nbsp;Finally got time to uploading the plugin from my development machine to my HTPC.&nbsp;I had to change the skin again to accomodate the latest changes.&nbsp;After playing around a bit more these are my ideas:&nbsp;I love the simplicity of your plugin, I think sometimes you can over populate a plugin with to many options. Saying that:&nbsp;1)&nbsp; When searching a box is displayed alerting you of the search process this disappears and then it can take upto 5 seconds before any results are shown making you think it's either crashed or their were no results.&nbsp; Therefore is their a way to speed up this process or keep the box on screen until the search is complete.&nbsp;2) When clicking next, previous the box reappears as if it's searching again, in the first release this didn't happen it was instant, also the result count doesn't quite show the correct information.&nbsp;3)&nbsp; The internal player, is difficult to control, and I therefore suggest again pushing out the video to a web browser of the users choice (removes the MSHTML issue), I could then view the video in a browser that is more controllable (i.e. I use KYLO).&nbsp;&nbsp; You could pass the video URL to the browser hide mediaportal, bit like the &quot;Multishortcut&quot; plugin, and the old MYNetflix plugin.&nbsp;The source code for both of these can be found at:&nbsp; [CODE]https://mp-plugins.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/mp-plugins/trunk/plugins/[/CODE]&nbsp;Also along with the &quot;Search&quot; and &quot;Queue&quot; button add another button labelled &quot;Browse Netflix&quot; or similar that takes you to the netflix website in the same choice of browser, if the user wants to browse the whole site for suggestions etc........&nbsp;4) if you did not have the inclination or time to do these, maybe think about open sourcing the code so users could add/subtract the features they require, and or assist you on the development.&nbsp;I think with these features/changes the plugin would be friendly and useful, and a great asset to mediaportal.&nbsp;Thanks.&nbsp;Dave.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dave Reynolds, post: 924220, member: 119609"] Hi, Finally got time to uploading the plugin from my development machine to my HTPC. I had to change the skin again to accomodate the latest changes. After playing around a bit more these are my ideas: I love the simplicity of your plugin, I think sometimes you can over populate a plugin with to many options. Saying that: 1) When searching a box is displayed alerting you of the search process this disappears and then it can take upto 5 seconds before any results are shown making you think it's either crashed or their were no results. Therefore is their a way to speed up this process or keep the box on screen until the search is complete. 2) When clicking next, previous the box reappears as if it's searching again, in the first release this didn't happen it was instant, also the result count doesn't quite show the correct information. 3) The internal player, is difficult to control, and I therefore suggest again pushing out the video to a web browser of the users choice (removes the MSHTML issue), I could then view the video in a browser that is more controllable (i.e. I use KYLO). You could pass the video URL to the browser hide mediaportal, bit like the "Multishortcut" plugin, and the old MYNetflix plugin. The source code for both of these can be found at: [CODE]https://mp-plugins.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/mp-plugins/trunk/plugins/[/CODE] Also along with the "Search" and "Queue" button add another button labelled "Browse Netflix" or similar that takes you to the netflix website in the same choice of browser, if the user wants to browse the whole site for suggestions etc........ 4) if you did not have the inclination or time to do these, maybe think about open sourcing the code so users could add/subtract the features they require, and or assist you on the development. I think with these features/changes the plugin would be friendly and useful, and a great asset to mediaportal. Thanks. Dave. [/QUOTE]

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