New External App: Netflix Viewer

[mrplow]

what would be the best way to go about asking for the feature request, email? phone call?

[chisox1976]

Thanks alot, this is a great app. Exactly what I was looking for and thanks for your help. Thought I was stupid because I didn't see the irremote file, glad it was on your end. Haha

[dhgb256]

what would be the best way to go about asking for the feature request, email? phone call?

A phone call to customer service (1-866-716-0414) and also post on the forum to my post (http://developer.netflix.com/forum/read/123261) asking for the feature.

-DH

[dhgb256]

Thanks alot, this is a great app. Exactly what I was looking for and thanks for your help. Thought I was stupid because I didn't see the irremote file, glad it was on your end. Haha

Thanks for the kind words. I would appreciate it if you'd take a moment to rate my app at: http://www.netflix.com/AppDisplay?id=212...gl-it-2121

Thanks!

-DH

[Snooze]

Any chance to have the status screen run in the background with a switch on a scheduled task in windows xp/7? It walks on top of whatever I am doing at the scheduled time, so I am thinking it would be a nice thing.

[dhgb256]

Any chance to have the status screen run in the background with a switch on a scheduled task in windows xp/7? It walks on top of whatever I am doing at the scheduled time, so I am thinking it would be a nice thing.

If you call Netflix TX Desktop.exe /update it should come up in a minimizable window. It is not able to be minimized if you choose to run the update from inside the program without using the switch. Is that not working? Or do you not want to minimize the window and it is staying in front of everything?

-DH

[Snooze]

If you call Netflix TX Desktop.exe /update it should come up in a minimizable window. It is not able to be minimized if you choose to run the update from inside the program without using the switch. Is that not working? Or do you not want to minimize the window and it is staying in front of everything?

-DH

Hey DH,

Yeah... its working well as you describe. Its when I am doing something else, like watching recordings from GBPVR at the update time... it gets annoying to have it climb on top and devour part of the screen. I think I have an idea to get around this. I will try it out and post back if I get any success with it.

Thanks!

[Snooze]

Oh, and one more thing. Did you notice when watching a series (such as Cheers) that advancing to the next episode with the remote skip button that it does indeed skip to the next episode, but plays a few seconds then pauses? I am not sure if its the app or my remote software (LM Remote). Can you test that on your end?

Thanks

[dhgb256]

Oh, and one more thing. Did you notice when watching a series (such as Cheers) that advancing to the next episode with the remote skip button that it does indeed skip to the next episode, but plays a few seconds then pauses? I am not sure if its the app or my remote software (LM Remote). Can you test that on your end?

Thanks

Yeah, I'll try it out.

-DH

[Snooze]

If you call Netflix TX Desktop.exe /update it should come up in a minimizable window. It is not able to be minimized if you choose to run the update from inside the program without using the switch. Is that not working? Or do you not want to minimize the window and it is staying in front of everything?

-DH

I found a multitude of ways to use Script, BAT, CMD files, etc. to get a program to run hidden or minimized. The easiest I found was simply to create another Windows User with password and schedule it to run with that user account instead of my normal user account I use for HTPC purpose. It appears to be working with no visible sign of it doing its update. NICE!!!

I do have to warn though that anyone wanting the update process running hidden as I did, it will prompt you at reboot as to which user you want to be logged in as and a password when you have more than one user account. I use MCE Standby tool so it can be done in there. XPTweak tool and I am sure there are a lot others that will do an auto login as well.

Its doing what I want anyway

EDIT: You will need to logon to your computer as the new user in the new account you created and logon to Netflix using internet explorer to create the cookie (check remember me to create the cookie), then run the updater once to allow the program to link the account to the app. Forgot to say that earlier.