[RELEASE] XBMC Flicks - Netflix Movies / TV Shows (Video) experimental Addon for XBMC

Never mind, I figured it out myself - just edited the wrong file.

[I wonder if anyone knows of a way to get the Internet Explorer to open in windowed mode? That would allow for moving said windows to a second screen in a dual monitor setup...]

(2012-07-10 01:58)drhuxtable Wrote:  Trying to get this set up with Eden on OSX Lion. No browser ever pops up when I try todo initial setup.

Any ideas?

I'm having this same issue.

If I don't select "OSX" in the settings, then Safari pops right up and gives me a button to link XBMCFlicks to my Netflix account. However, it will *always* pop this window up every time I try to launch the app, and it never goes any further. When I check my account settings in Netflix in a browser, XBMC Flicks isn't listed as a trusted app.

If I do select "OSX" in the settings, then the box pops up in XBMC saying, "Click OK after you finish the link...", but no browser window ever comes up.

Anyone found a workaround for this?

[edit]This isn't a Lion issue, it's happening in Snow Leopard too.

Does anyone have XBMC flicks working with openelec? Thanks

Isn't this plugin really dead? I can see that the developer haven't been online in the forum for more than a month now...

(2012-06-28 23:49)edco Wrote:  I'm using XBMC in a dual monitor. Any way I can get this to open on my TV? When I click a movie it plays on my pc

I'm also wondering if that's possible.

Save us, Fekker, you're our only hope... ~~zwip~~ Save us, Fekker, you're our only hope...

There also hasn't been a commit @ github for 4 months now, I'm afraid this might be dead, unless someone else picks it up and runs with it.

[edit] I've gotten it working in Snow Leopard, this should work in later OSX versions as well. This requires some terminal work, but it's not particularly difficult.

Basically:

1) rm -rf ~/Library/Application\ Support/XBMC/userdata/addon_data/plugin.video.xbmcflicks
(Only one of these next two lines should run successfully, but running them both is non-destructive, you'll just get a "not found" error)
2) rm -rf ~/Library/Application\ Support/XBMC/addons/plugins.video.xbmcflicks
3) rm -rf ~/Library/Application\ Support/XBMC/addons/spudsdude-XBMC-Flicks*
4) Download this: https://github.com/spudsdude/XBMC-Flicks/zipball/master
5) Go through the "install from zip file" method of installing it
6) mv ~/Library/Application\ Support/XBMC/addons/spudsdude-XBMC-Flicks-4aa5bcb ~/Library/Application\ Support/XBMC/addons/plugins.video.xbmcflicks
7) Go to System -> Add-ons -> Enabled Add-ons -> Video Add-ons -> XBMC Flicks -> Configure
8) Go to the Miscellaneous tab and set "OSX" to "Yes"
9) Go to the "Debugging" tab and enable both debug options, then hit "OK"
10) Launch the XBMC Flicks add-on, and navigate until it attempts to pop up a browser window. This is the part that is broken.
11) In the terminal window, run this: tail ~/Library/Logs/xbmc.log
12) You should see a line like:

"NOTICE: Authorize user access here: https://api-user.netflix.com/oauth/login?........

Copy the full URL, from the "https" through the end of the oauth_token value (a long string of seemingly random characters) and paste it into your browser. Netflix will tell you that you have enabled XBMC Flicks access to your Netflix account.
13) Go back to XBMC and hit "OK"
14) You will get a notice stating that you will need to restart XBMC. Please do so.
15) Run this at the command line: more ~/Library/Application\ Support/XBMC/userdata/addon_data/plugin.video.xbmcflicks/userdata.txt

If you see 4 lines in this file, you're all set. Go enjoy some streaming video. If you don't, well, I'm out of ideas.

aaaaand now it's popping up in a window *under* the fullscreen XBMC. This happens in Safari, Chrome and Firefox.

I saw a suggestion to use "fullscreen window instead of fullscreen," but this apparently isn't available in OSX.

Any ideas?

What are people's ideas for getting OUT of Netflix? It works fine enough to get me into a video, but then I'm kind of stuck unless I use the keyboard to Alt-F4 out, which I really don't want to do; even then, XBMC will be minimized so I'd have to use the mouse to maximize it.

With all due respect to Mr Fekker, I think this add-on needs a very basic feature to be useful(at least for me).

I usually watch TV shows. When I log in to safari on my mac, my home screen has the recently watched episodes and single click on one of the shows I have been watching, plays the next episode. This add-on is supposed make it easier for me. But on XMBCFlicks, Its a dozen clicks to find the next episode and when you want to play it, it opens in safari (in a background window). Not useful at all.

Considering the low usability of the add-on, I am surprised that there are currently 98 pages in this thread!! I usually never complain about anything and I get really excited with add-ons, but not this one.

Having said that, I am pretty sure there is no way to do it in XMBCFlicks, whatever I am looking for. Otherwise Fekker would have done that already. For now, I will have to leave the beautiful interface of XMBC to watch my netflix shows and that's a bummer