[AppleTV2] Will Netflix still work on a jailbreaked Apple TV 2?

I guess the trick now would be to find a way to launch the ATV2 netflix client from within XBMC. Oh my that would be nice.

Just to throw it out there, on the iPhone/iPod touch/iPad is used on the Netflix website to launch video to the Netflix app. The full "url" probably works very differently than in the existing XBMC Netflix plug-in, but I'm betting it is more than possible to make it launch the official iOS app from XBMC. Not sure if it would work on ATV2, but it would work on the other iOS devices.

Is there any way or trick I can use to play netflix and xbmc movies outside US? I am using an Apple TV 2g and it works great with the jailbreak and xbmc but I can´t see a lot of channels.
Thank you.

fekker Wrote:In theory, you should also be able to use the netflix addon xbmcflicks to manage the queue, add items, search, dvd rental, etc.. I don't have one to try it with yet, but once your past the auth it should work.

if someone wanted to test that, install the plugin on windows/osx and link it, then install it onto atv2 and copy the userinfo.txt file from the addon-data folder for xbmcflicks to the atv2, that should allow the auth to work and queue management. If it does, i could disable the link writing parts (used for playback on windows /osx) and it could be used to search, browse and add to instant queue as well as add items to the dvd queue..

just an idea I doubt they have the player exposed enough that I can feed it the id like it's done on windows/osx.

Hi fekker,

I:
1. Installed the xbmcflicks plugin onto my Vista machine, linked it, and xbmc accesses my netflix account fine.
2. I grabbed userinfo.txt from C:\Users\[MyUserID]\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\userdata\addon_data\plugin.video.xbmcflicks\
3. SSH'd into my ATV2 using WinSCP.
4. Copied userinfo.txt to /private/var/mobile/Library/Preferences/XBMC/userdata/addon_data/plugin.video.xbmcflicks
5. Restarted ATV2.

Also, I'm in Canada, and I chose that setting in the add-on settings.

Assuming I placed userinfo.txt in the right place, I get a 'script error plugin.video.xbmcflicks' if I recall correctly. Here's the section of the log (how do I attach files on here?):


18:17:06 T:171540480 M:126697472 NOTICE: root folder: /var/mobile/Library/Preferences/XBMC/addons/plugin.video.xbmcflicks
18:17:06 T:171540480 M:126697472 NOTICE: working folder: /var/mobile/Library/Preferences/XBMC/userdata/addon_data/plugin.video.xbmcflicks/
18:17:06 T:171540480 M:126697472 NOTICE: links folder: /var/mobile/Library/Preferences/XBMC/userdata/addon_data/plugin.video.xbmcflicks/links
18:17:06 T:171540480 M:126697472 NOTICE: real link path: /var/mobile/Library/Preferences/XBMC/userdata/addon_data/plugin.video.xbmcflicks/links
18:17:06 T:171540480 M:126697472 NOTICE: resource folder: /var/mobile/Library/Preferences/XBMC/addons/plugin.video.xbmcflicks/resources
18:17:06 T:171540480 M:126697472 NOTICE: lib folder: /var/mobile/Library/Preferences/XBMC/addons/plugin.video.xbmcflicks/resources/lib
18:17:06 T:171540480 M:126697472 NOTICE: userinfo folder: /var/mobile/Library/Preferences/XBMC/userdata/addon_data/plugin.video.xbmcflicks/
18:17:06 T:171540480 M:126697472 ERROR: Error Type: <type 'exceptions.IOError'>
18:17:06 T:171540480 M:126697472 ERROR: Error Contents: (2, 'No such file or directory', '/var/mobile/Library/Preferences/XBMC/userdata/playercorefactory.xml')
18:17:06 T:171540480 M:126697472 ERROR: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/var/mobile/Library/Preferences/XBMC/addons/plugin.video.xbmcflicks/default.py", line 26, in <module>
import resources.lib.menu as menu
File "/var/mobile/Library/Preferences/XBMC/addons/plugin.video.xbmcflicks/resources/lib/menu.py", line 524, in <module>
getNewToWatchInstantCATopX("0")
File "/var/mobile/Library/Preferences/XBMC/addons/plugin.video.xbmcflicks/resources/lib/iqueue.py", line 1360, in getNewToWatchInstantCATopX
initApp()
File "/var/mobile/Library/Preferences/XBMC/addons/plugin.video.xbmcflicks/resources/lib/iqueue.py", line 1276, in initApp
checkplayercore()
File "/var/mobile/Library/Preferences/XBMC/addons/plugin.video.xbmcflicks/resources/lib/iqueue.py", line 119, in checkplayercore
f = open(checkFile,'r+')
IOError: (2, 'No such file or directory', '/var/mobile/Library/Preferences/XBMC/userdata/playercorefactory.xml')
18:17:06 T:146870272 M:126529536 ERROR: GetDirectory - Error getting plugin://plugin.video.xbmcflicks/?mode=50
18:17:06 T:146870272 M:126529536 ERROR: CGUIMediaWindow::GetDirectory(plugin://plugin.video.xbmcflicks/?mode=50) failed
18:17:06 T:146870272 M:126525440 WARNING: GetLabel - Unknown nodetype requested 6
18:18:15 T:146870272 M:128266240 WARNING: Previous line repeats 2 times.
18:18:15 T:146870272 M:128266240 NOTICE: Samba is idle. Closing the remaining connections

OK. maybe I'm a retard, but I cannot find anywhere how to configure netflix on xbmc in my appletv2

I want to use netflix in xbmc using my appletv2 (yes, I know that apple tv 2 is netflix ready, but I do care about GUIs and sincerly I want to test xbmcflix better).

So far, I just did the configuration of the plugin, and marked as OSX = Yes.

PLEASE HEEEEELP

I love the GUI on the ATV2 vs the standard streaming GUI you see on the Blu ray players and other places. Its more user friendly and you see more at one time and its faster to jump between movies in your queue. With my blu ray you can hold down the button and jump fast but i can with the ATV2

So... Is it not possible to use xbmcflix on atv2??

Don't think so. OSX != iOS.

Can someone point me out how to configure it then? I only need to know where should i put login and password

As I recall, when under the Netflix the last menu option was Login or Settings or something like that. When I originally set it up, it was real obvious as I did not have to dig out any manuals or anything to do it. Hope this helps.