[mythtv-users] Netflix Streaming on Myth box?

[Mark Knecht]

On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Brad Fuller <bradallenfuller at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 1:14 PM, Kevin Kuphal <kkuphal at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Brad Fuller <bradallenfuller at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 8:24 AM, Mark Knecht <markknecht at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> > There is a 'secret' menu on the NetFLix Player that allows you to
>>>> > reduce how much bandwidth you are requesting. My experience is that I
>>>> > can drop it pretty low before I start seeing really bad video on my
>>>> > older large screen TV.
>>>> >
>>>>
>>>> Is this on the web browser player? Where?
>>>> I'm running vista in a virtualbox on Gentoo 64 and the audio is choppy.
>>>
>>> IIRC, you hit Shift-B with the focus on the player in the browser and you'll
>>> get a little pulldown where you can set the bitrate
>>>
>>> Kevin
>>
>> This used to work in the browser but once they forced me to M$
>> Silverlight it doesn't work anymore for me. Do you know how to do this
>> with Silverlight?
>
> I had to hit Shift+B several times for it to appear on the bottom right,.

Are you using Silverlight or the older player?

With the older player there was a 2 step trick:

1) Click your curson to the left of the episode name in the lower left
2) Then hit shift-B

That was the way NetFlix told me to get to the feature. When they
switched to Silverlight they told me there wasn't a similar feature.
I'd love to get it back.

Silverlight is a mess with dual screen. With the older player I could
make a movie full screen on one monitor and work on the other. With
Silverlight as soon as you click anywhere the player goes back to
windowed and the picture is of course much smaller.