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

Philip Nourse pjn at pobox.com
Mon Sep 22 19:54:41 UTC 2014


On 22/09/2014 3:34 PM, Tom Dexter wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 3:15 PM, Gary Buhrmaster
> <gary.buhrmaster at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 6:39 PM, Joseph Fry <joe at thefrys.com> wrote:
>> ....
>>> What would be particularly nice would be creating a plugin that would parse
>>> the HTML on the netflix site .....
>> Of course, this violates the TOS (scrapping explicitly
>> mentioned) of the NetFlix site.
>>
>> And NetFlix is in progress to removing the developer API
>> functionality that provided a previously supported method
>> (to be shut down November 2014) for those with a
>> developer account.
>>
>> So, like most other platforms, one is likely at best to
>> see a "NetFlix" button that places one into the NetFlix
>> experience.
>>
>> But you are free to dream of a different world, where
>> content providers do not control the horizontal, and
>> do not control the vertical.....
> The real solution here for me will no doubt remain:  Take you're money
> elsewhere.
>
> I'd like to be able to use NetFlix as much as anyone, but I refuse to
> jump through hoops to work around policies I find reprehensible.  I
> just tend to view that as telling them that it's ok when it's anything
> but...just as I refuse to use Wine to get to iTunes, when they *could*
> be selling me songs requiring nothing but my browser.  That's the
> reason I use OTA only (which I know isn't an option for many).
>
> The whole content industry has their head up their ass...that's the real issue.
>
> Tom
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The reason why Netflix shut down the API has nothing to do with content 
protection.   What they had a problem with was the poor job third party 
developers were doing at creating applications.   Even if the Myth TV 
developers did a bang up job of presenting netflix listings, it wouldn't 
make up for all the hacks the Netflix believe are damaging the look and 
feel they are trying to present to consumers.

I am personally pretty excited about having Netflix come native to 
linux, and have, with great appreciating to the pipelight developers, 
been using pipelight since last December.  Maybe the hardware 
acceleration will even work now.


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