Netflix Watch Now beta

[imagn]

Do you have any info as to when or if saybas will implement playback of DRM movies?

This would be welcomed great awesome news!! Although your plugin news is pretty awesome too!!

[whurlston]

As far as I know they are working on implementing it specifically so this plugin will work.

[curioffl]

I installed this and got it as far as downloading a movie to about the half-way point when I noticed that I could "Watch Now" and figured that would stream it (using GBPVR from my desktop). Clicking that I got a pop-up about media player and licenses and it seemed to want my netflix password which I tried to remember a few times and finally canceled out. I got into Netflix and changed my password to one I could remember (my browser has remembered it forever) but when I tried again with the new/known password I got the same error. After a reboot the plugin is actually broken.

I can click into the Netflix Watch Now, I see stuff under "Queue" for instance, but any movie I pick says Retrieving Movie Information Please wait, and then immediately sends up a crash/error-report dialogue "PVRX2 has encountered a problem and needs to close..." with:

EventType : clr20r3 P1 : pvrx2.exe P2 : 1.0.0.0 P3 : 19
P4 : netflixapi P5 : 1.0.0.5 P6 : 48599c33 P7 : 6c P8 : 2c3
P9 : system.nullreferenceexception

at the top to "What does this error report contain?" and:

2008-07-30 16:10:05.171 ERROR [9] FATAL UNHANDLED EXCEPTION:: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
at Netflix.WatchNow.Movie.GetDetails()
at System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart_Context(Object state)
at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state)
at System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart()

correspondingly I think in the pvrx2.exe log.

Any thoughts on correcting this are appreciated.

[whurlston]

Did you remember to set the option to "Remember Me" when you logged in with your new password? It is a checkbox on the login page. I already made a change for the next build that will handle this issue more gracefully.

For the Queue, I pull the RSS feeds which don't require you to be logged in so they are not affected, but retrieval of the detail requires you to be logged in.

[curioffl]

Awesome, worked good. Thanks!

[whurlston]

I've got a couple of screenshots up if you feel like a teaser: http://www.epgtools.com/Plugins/Netflix/...shots.html

They are using the Blue skin. I still have to make the necessary changes to CS3.

[gazoo]

whurlston-

Forgive my ignorance, but what is and where do I get the latest? I was having trouble previously in Vista halfway stopping downloads, but I never got to test any changes because my life became hectic for like 1.5 months.

[whurlston]

No problem. The latest is linked in the first post of the thread. There is a patch in post 267 that you can apply as well.

The above screenshots are from a new, soon-to-be-released version.

[whurlston]

Requesting that this thread be locked and a sub-forum created. I'm about to release a new version with more features (including NMT support) and it may be easier to keep track of issues/requests.

[sub]

Done...