How to intergrate Netflix as seemless as possible.

There are alot of hiding places.. Glad to hear you're up and running again.

Regards tuxen

Maybe this should be also be posted in the "Plugin/Script (Python) Addons Help and Support" to get more exposure, not sure if it's technically a Plugin/Script, but... ??

Regardless, I REALLY like this solution. I'm semi new to all this, and it was a breeze.

I initially used the "official" XBMC Flicks plugin; I really liked how Netflix was integrated with the XBMC skin, but it was a little less reliable for me -and frustrating to get the remote to work, start in full screen and get back into XBMC. All in all, XBMC Flicks is a great project, please keep it up!

However, for now, this solution by tuxen works better for me. My Harmony remote worked without so much as a single tweak!!! And while the WMC Netflix interface isn't XBMC, but it's still quite nice and easy to use. And it got me playing around with WMC, it's pretty nice. I like those sports scores in WMC...

Anyway, as noted by other users, I noticed the Window's desktop when the script switched between XBMC and the WMC Netflix plugin, but my super-simple work around was clearing the desktop of icons, setting a black background and a nice XBMC splash screen as the desktop, and auto-hiding the taskbar. Maybe not perfect, but it works for me. Slick enough!

So, thanks again!!!

I'm looking forward to trying your Hulu work around when I have some time!

Updates.. Added an ini file so you can specify your own exit key(s).
Read up on the guide in the first post, and get the files.

Best Regards tuxen

@jaydash, thanks alot for the kind words.
Criticism, ideas, suggetions, and especially posts like yours are allways welcome.

Best Regards tuxen

Updated, check first out the first post..

Regards tuxen

ARRRG!.. sorry for the double post. Anyways ALLWAYS check the first post for updates.

jaydash Wrote:Anyway, as noted by other users, I noticed the Window's desktop when the script switched between XBMC and the WMC Netflix plugin, but my super-simple work around was clearing the desktop of icons, setting a black background and a nice XBMC splash screen as the desktop, and auto-hiding the taskbar. Maybe not perfect, but it works for me. Slick enough!

It's to save CPU that I minimize XBMC, when it's in fullscreen mode it updates the display 60 times a second which takes a considerable amount off CPU time. I also think you can not mess with it when running direct-x fullscreen. (please correct me if i'm wrong, but that's my understanding) So I choose to do it the "nice" way, if you can say so.. Heh.

I did like you; took a screenshot of the splashscreen when XBMC starts up, and used as background with no icons, and hidden taskbar. Maybe I'll make a loader screen that looks like the splashscreen with a little "loading..", that's really the only think I can think off.

Also I have links to a few programs within XBMC, like internet explorer (i have a mini remote with keyboard, logitech dinovo mini i think)

Regards tuxen

Tuxen,

Just wanted to let you know I got this working with a pre-eden build. It works great, however it is still only sending Stereo audio from netflix. Hopefully they are able to fix this in the future.

Yeah they have been holding out on anything but PS3. I think Sony has made a special deal with Netflix. Let's hope Netflix is able to break away from this, but is probably about $$$. Anyways things seem to indicate late this year, though I'm not to optimistic. Nice to hear you found that the executor plugin worked on pre-eden builds after all.

Best regards tuxen

Nice...

Added an optional loading screen, just copy splash.jpg into C:\Script, if the file is missing the loading screen will just be blank.
You will also need to download the updated snetflix.exe either here: http://81.161.149.87:8080/netflix/snetflix.zip or from the guide. It includes a sample splash.jpg.
The example splash.jpg is just a 720p XBMC loader screen but it should be auto scaled to any resolution.
No more need to hide the taskbar and icons to make the experience more "seamless".

Best regards tuxen