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More => Old Versions => Media Center 12 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: mmlevin on July 07, 2008, 04:50:04 pm

Title: Netflix Integration
Post by: mmlevin on July 07, 2008, 04:50:04 pm

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

PLEASE? ? ?

Title: Re: Netflix Integration
Post by: John Gateley on July 07, 2008, 04:55:44 pm

Did NetFlix publish the protocol?

j

Title: Re: Netflix Integration
Post by: mmlevin on July 07, 2008, 11:56:15 pm

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

Title: Re: Netflix Integration
Post by: mmlevin on July 08, 2008, 12:04:55 am

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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.

Title: Re: Netflix Integration
Post by: mmlevin on July 08, 2008, 12:05:57 am

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.

Title: Re: Netflix Integration
Post by: mmlevin on July 08, 2008, 12:17:46 am

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

Title: Re: Netflix Integration
Post by: John Gateley on July 08, 2008, 09:47:44 am

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

Title: Re: Netflix Integration
Post by: horse on July 21, 2008, 05:25:44 pm

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.

Title: Re: Netflix Integration
Post by: John Gateley on July 21, 2008, 10:38:03 pm

Yes, the roku is what started this thread :)

j