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[mmlevin]

Are there any plans to integrate Netflix streaming service with MC12?  If so, will it operate through the UPnP interface?

PLEASE? ? ?

[John Gateley]

Did NetFlix publish the protocol?

j

[mmlevin]

I don't know, but if that's what is needed, I'll make it my job to get it.   :-)

[mmlevin]

A harbinger of how U.S. consumers may access the Web for entertainment and information, Roku, Inc. of Saratoga, CA. (DEMOfall 05) Wednesday introduced the first player that streams movies from the online, subscription service Netflix to televisions using open source software. Roku's Netflix Player, about the size of a paperback book, costs US$99 and is available immediately from its Web site.

[mmlevin]

Oops.  I didn't mean to post that last one without a comment.  This is an article I found, which says the software is OPEN SOURCE.  I will research further.

[mmlevin]

I found a plugin for Windows Media Center which provides access to Netflix.  It's a beta version, and the guy who wrote it apparently got Netflix's attention, so they hired him!

http://www.anpark.com/Software.aspx

[John Gateley]

The plug-in is interesting, looks like it's operating as a proxy to the Netflix web page. We could do something like that, but it's friable: any time Netflix changes their page, we'd have to change our code too. I'm hoping for an API to call instead.

I've looked at the Netflix sounce code. I don't think their entire solution is open, just pieces, but I'd be very interested to find out I am wrong...

j

[horse]

Netflix must have published something.
I was at a friends house over the weekend and he just got a Roku that hooks into Netflix

http://www.roku.com/netflixplayer/

Also Xbox360 users will have this capability later in the year as MS and Netflix have done a deal.

[John Gateley]

Yes, the roku is what started this thread

j