[mythtv-users] Netflix coming to MythTV native - no more wine/windows?

Joseph Fry joe at thefrys.com
Mon Sep 22 18:39:24 UTC 2014


On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 3:42 PM, Stephen P. Villano <
stephen.p.villano at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On 9/20/14, 3:35 PM, Michelle Dupuis wrote:
> > Can myth open a Chrome browser window as another type of player?
> Translate the standard up/down/left/right keystrokes?
> >
> > Maybe get real fancy and extract the show info, images, etc from the raw
> HTML and create a myth'ed UI.
> > ________________________________________
> > From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org <mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org>
> on behalf of Thomas Mashos <thomas at mashos.com>
> > Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2014 12:53 PM
> > To: Myth TV Users List
> > Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Netflix coming to MythTV native - no more
>  wine/windows?
> >
> > On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 12:25 AM, Michelle Dupuis <mdupuis at ocg.ca>
> wrote:
> >> Ok, well it's coming to Linux natively anyways!!!
> >>
> >>
> >>
> http://techcrunch.com/2014/09/19/netflix-is-finally-coming-to-linux-without-the-need-for-hacky-tricks/
> >>
> >>
> >> Hopefully the devs are following this story.  I would love to get my
> Netflix
> >> through myth!!
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> > My understanding of it is that Netflix is coming to Chrome on linux,
> > not particularly Linux in general.
> >
> > --
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Thomas Mashos
>
> It's possible. There is already a method of adding a wine instances into
> the menus to do something similar.
>
>
What would be particularly nice would be creating a plugin that would parse
the HTML on the netflix site and generate native mythtv menus for the
available netflix content.  Only opening fullscreen chrome session for
playback.
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