[mythtv] Re: MythFlix (NetFlix Plugin)

[Velorider]

Additional configuration notes:

For the "Add To Queue" function to work you must replace
 
[Replace With ShopperId From Cookie]

with your NetflixShopperId from your NetFlix cookie.

There are two places to replace.

John

On Saturday 15 October 2005 02:09 pm, you wrote:
> I had some spare time today and started working on a myth plugin for
> NetFlix. It uses NetFlix RSS feeds to view the movie listing and allows you
> to add a movie to your queue.
>
> The functionality was so close to what MythNews provides I simply modified
> the mythnews code base to support "Add To Queue" when an artical (i.e.
> movie) is selected from the rss feed.
>
> I thought such a plug-in might be of interest to others so I'm posting a
>  patch for mythnews that convert mythnews to mythflix.
>
> http://petrocik.net/mythflix.patch
>
> I'm new to Myth development so somethings I would have like to do I didn't
> because I haven't figured out how.  Foremost, I like to figure out the menu
> system so I can deploy the plug as mythflix and not a modified mythnews.
> Right now it using all the plumping for mythnews so installing mythflix
> will replace mythnews.
>
> I very interested in peoples feed back and how I should manage the code
> base when 95% of the functionality is the same as MythNews.  I don't think
> a patch is the best solution but is works for now.
>
> Thanks
> John