How to intergrate Netflix as seemless as possible.

Hi Tuxen,

Do you know if your method will work with Vista's Media Center as well? I get an autohotkeys script error that it failed to launch the program in line 13 which is: Run, windowsmediacenterapp:{e6f46126-f8a9-4a97-9159-b70b07890112}\{982ea9d3-915c-4713-a3c8-99a4688b7c59}?EntryPointParameters=. Before finding your thread, I'd found a similar article online, downloaded autohotkeys, and created my own script which gave me the exact same error. I've tried executing this line from a run command but get a windows error message indicating that no program is associated with the file. Both work fine on my desktop computer that runs windows 7. I've also tried starting WMC using variations of the /entrypoint parameter to see if I could get that to work. No luck there either.

I'm guessing that Vista's Media Center handles the Netflix app differently and either there's another way to launch it or you simply can't do it. Worst case I can probably use Eventghost or script the key presses, but wanted to see if you had any thoughts or advice.

Thanks.

Jeff

Yes you need to run ehshell with a different parameter than /entrypoint.
Unfortunately I lost the message where I discussed this. But try launching:
in a command shell.

Hi Tuxen,

Thanks for the quick response. Unfortunately, using -launchcoded as the parameter didn't work either. WMC starts up as it would normally and seems to be ignoring the parameter completely. Tried /launchcoded, /launchcode, -launchcoded, -launchcode all with the same result. Any other thoughts? Do you think the application and entry point guids might be different for Vista WMC?

UPDATE: I ended up just launching WMC in an autohotkey script and then using "send {Left}{Enter}" to launch netflix. Works so far and you don't even see the WMC's menu screen. Next challenge is the getting netflix to recognize the standard shortcuts for play/pause (control-shift-p) or even the space bar. I discovered this was a known problem in the version I have (2.0.0). This is the latest version I can find for Vista and am going to try to revert to a beta version (1.1.14) to see if the shortcuts work and it's not too buggy. And yes I should upgrade to windows 7 but don't want to invest any more $ in my HTPC. Sigh...

Hi Tuxen,
Just wanted to stop in and say thanks for this. It works great for Netflix.

great plug-in, use it all the time. but would it be too much to ask for a hulu desktop version? thanks

Hi Tuxen,
I regularly use this plugin and recently updated to Frodo, which seems to have broken this. Any plans to get it working? Or maybe it already does if I tweak something?

Thanks!

Disregard. I didn't realize I needed to update Adv Launcher to the Frodo compatible version. I did that and this works perfect again.

Thanks!!

Can you do one for TV Guide and Live TV also?

I have them working but they interfere with yours with my exit commands..I need them all to be yours so exit functions correctly.

Thanks for these, love it.

I would have tried to write my own but there is something you do in your version that corrects the proxy error and other errors I get (such as video error when going direct to Live TV and proxy error when direct to netflix)

But since you have PW protected I can't look and see what that code is.

Could you please tell me what command you put in your netflix script to prevent the Unable to Display page error? Or provide the source please!