[Original Thread] "My NetFlix" Plugin with Watch Now Support (1 Viewer)

[jmvaughn]

Hi WileE,

OK, I think we're talking about two different things here....

What I would love to be able to do is to access two different netflix accounts. When I select "John" I would effectively be logging out of Cathy's account and logging on to my account. I would at that point only see only movies in my own queue and anything I added or removed would only affect my account. Netflix supports two users within the same household/same account having two different sets of queues, recommendations, etc., I'd like to be able to view them separately through the plugin.

Does that make sense?

I hope I'm not being too much of a pain here, and I don't know if any of this is at all feasible, but I hope the above at least gets across what I'm trying to say

 

[WileECoyote]

OHHHHHHH!

Yes, we were talking about two different things

I have never tried dual activation. Now just to be clear, does your wife have a seperate account or a sub-account to your account?

Sorry for the confusion....

 

[jmvaughn]

OHHHHHHH!

Yes, we were talking about two different things

I have never tried dual activation. Now just to be clear, does your wife have a seperate account or a sub-account to your account?

Sorry for the confusion....

My account is a sub-account of hers.

 

[WileECoyote]

My account is a sub-account of hers.

I see. Okay, here is another potential issue... Sub-acounts have a DVD queue, but no Instant queue. So if you were to log into your account, the Instant queue would show nothing. You would have to be logged into the main account to be able to see and view Instant movies.

I will have to think on this for a little while, but Im sure we can come up with something.

 

[jmvaughn]

Installed RC2a last night and been testing it out on and off since. It installed fine with no problems. The new features work very well.

I was able to get the keyboard shortcuts to work in the player, too.

No issues so far.

Very nice, thanks for the update!

On a side note, I got the font issue solved by copying over the two netflix .xml files and images from BeazleWide to my BeazleWide710 folder (and cleared the cache). Now all is good.

 

[Moonracer]

I'd thought I would update my experiences with RC2 and I have nothing but good to report. No issues, the interface is running well within MediaStream theme and searching for additional titles works well.

Thanks again for your hard work my friend!

mr

 

[WileECoyote]

I'd thought I would update my experiences with RC2 and I have nothing but good to report. No issues, the interface is running well within MediaStream theme and searching for additional titles works well.

Thanks again for your hard work my friend!

mr

Cool, thanks for the feedback!

I will probably package RC2 as Version 1.0 and submit it to MP to be listed in the Plugin's section. I think RC2 is the most stable version to date, so its probably the best place to start with a 1.0 version.

I have released an RC3 version to testers that allows for Netflix Sub Accounts, but I may hold off on releasing that to the GP.

Thanks again!
Wile E.

 

[winterescape]

Has anybody upgraded to Silverlight 3 yet and used this plugin?
Do things look any better with the new hardware video acceleration available? Can the video acceleration be utilized?
Just curious.

BTW, I use your plugin on a daily basis WileECoyote. Love it.

Just upgraded to RC2 and it is working very well. Looks great, the instant queue now has red dots next to all items in the list.

Also Microsoft reports my version of silverlight "The version of Silverlight installed is:
Silverlight 3 RTW (3.0.40624.0)" so yes looks fine with version 3 ,Not sure where to find settings to enable/disable HW acceleration, not like flash player where right clicking on video brings up settings for that.

 

[poppabk]

One small issue, which I don't know if it has been mentioned already, but if I am scrolling through my watch now list and look at a title and then press the back/exit button to go back one menu (hauppage remote), I am returned to the top of my list rather than centered on the movie I was looking at. This can be annoying especially for TV series if you don't know which series an episode is in and so are constantly returning to the list. Am I doing something incorrectly?

 

[WileECoyote]

One small issue, which I don't know if it has been mentioned already, but if I am scrolling through my watch now list and look at a title and then press the back/exit button to go back one menu (hauppage remote), I am returned to the top of my list rather than centered on the movie I was looking at. This can be annoying especially for TV series if you don't know which series an episode is in and so are constantly returning to the list. Am I doing something incorrectly?

Hey Poppabk,
Yea, I am aware of this 'condition.' I tried early on to combat it with no luck. Since the TV guide has a similar response I presumed there was not a way to programatically select the item in the list. I will research it more and see if I can include something in the final release.

Thanks,
Wile E.