[Original Thread] "My NetFlix" Plugin with Watch Now Support (3 Viewers)

[kevinfreels]

This is great! Thank you SO much for taking this on! Been playing around with it a while now. A couple observations....

1.) I can't seem to EXIT the movie once it starts without actually closing the silverlight/ie browser window via ALT/F4 or ALT Tab. ALT+Tab of course leaves the movie up and running beneath the MP. I can pause and play via the space bar or enter key but those are the only two keys that seem to work. Right Clicking gives a contex menu but no option to close the browser window. Looking at it closely it seems that it is opening a new IE window for the silverlight player but the command to open probably has the switches on to turn off everything - ie menu bar, address bar, etc. This is probably to get it to mimic to full screen mode, but the full screen option is still available.
I tried it in a regular browser at the netflix site and the window they open is a standard window and you have to click the full screen option to actually view it as a full screen. Then hitting escape pops up the menu bar and all and you can close it out. You may want to review the switches and at least leave the menu bar up in that window.

2.) I knw this is BETA and there is much work to do. One thing I don't see is a skin for the Blue3 regular format screen. So everything appears squished when I try to run it. I tried putting both the Blue3wide and StreamedMP skins on the regular Blue3 skin but it is awful and unworkable. So I would like to request a skin for the Blue3 regular screen format for those of us with normal TVs still. Also, I can't seem to figure out what the heck the StreamedMp skin is for. Anyone have any clues?

Aside from those two things, it works - wonderfully! Thanks again!

 

[nmsnoman]

no netflix for me! 1 year!

I installed mynetflix as instructed but I'm not getting anything. no Que, reccomendations, nothing at all.

I looked at my log and found several occurences of this:

2009-03-26 15:25:10.625000 [Info.][MPMain]: MyNetFlixMain:OnButtonPress: Error getting movie information: Could not load file or assembly 'System.Xml.Linq, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.

anyone.....anyone....Bueller.....Bueller?

 

[WileECoyote]

I installed mynetflix as instructed but I'm not getting anything. no Que, reccomendations, nothing at all.

I looked at my log and found several occurences of this:

2009-03-26 15:25:10.625000 [Info.][MPMain]: MyNetFlixMain:OnButtonPress: Error getting movie information: Could not load file or assembly 'System.Xml.Linq, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.

anyone.....anyone....Bueller.....Bueller?

Hey nmsnoman,
You need to install Framework 2.0 and possibly 3.5. Try 2.0 first and let me know if it works properly after that...

Wile E.

 

[DerZwen]

ok here are my logs. hope it helps

 

[WileECoyote]

ok here are my logs. hope it helps

Your issue is the same as nmsnoman's. Please install Framework 2.0 and possibly 3.5 if that doesnt resolve the issue.

Wile E.

 

[DerZwen]

will do,

I thought I allready had installed 3.5, but that seems to have been on another rig .net 2.0 with sp1 was installed, so that doesn't seem to be enough

 

[keith2045]

I had the same problem, i didnt have .net 3.5 installed, so install that and it will probably work.

After thinking about it i dont think we need to use a third party utility to control playback. Since MP is still listening for user input you can have the pause (or whatever button) button move the mouse to a certain point and click, and you could have a calibration portion, so if the button moves then all the user would have to do is recalibrate it. I'm using this in my plugin, so if you have questions let me know. Just a thought

Keith I think this is totally possible. I am playing with a few things now to see if I can get the mouse control to work properly. This is going to be so much easier than a third party utility...

This may not be possible since IE is not being hosted by the plugin but rather being launched in kiosk mode, but one could use the DOM to directly interact with the controls on the page. Other plugins that manually moved and clicked the mouse have run into issues with varying screen resolutions, one thing to keep in mind.

On a side note, any particular reason for launching IE rather than just hosting a full screen WebBrowser control in the plugin?

I thought about that and in the plugin i'm developing i'm forcing the user to 'calibrate' the first time they play a video from a source. They have to click on play, pause, etc... i then capture the position for each button, store them and reference them when the user presses play, pause.... If Something changes the user can recalibrate (button moves, changes screen resolutions).

WileECoyote the problem your probably going to run into is calibration (if you use that), you probably wont be able to capture the mouse click because IE is opened and it wont send the click back to MP. You could do what Vaelek suggested and build a webbrowser control in your plugin, you should then be able to capture the mouse click. I integrated a flash player into my plugin and had to 'draw' something on top of it in order to capture the mouse click because the .flash player would capture the click

Let me know if you want code samples and or to go into more detail.

 

[nmsnoman]

2.0 is already there, so I'll get 3.5 installed and post back. thanks for the response!

 

[DerZwen]

3.5 did it! Thx 4 the help and sorry for me not reading right (oder better not checking right )

 

[nmsnoman]

yes sir! that was it. I installed .net 3.5 and it's working as advertised.

I also noticed on the way in here to post this, that the very first item on the list in the very first post on this thread is:

1. Install the latest .NET Framework 3.5 (We think only Framework 2.0 is requried - Thnx Blitzkrg)

Soooo, I thought I had followed instructions........

It doesn't look like .net 2.0 is going to cut it.

thanks for the help.